Hazel Strauch Elementary: 44% of kids clear the bar — ahead of the state's 43%. But math slips between grade 3 and grade 5.
Hazel Strauch posts 44% meeting the standard, against 43% across the state. The number below is the one to ask about on a visit.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 38 | 23% | 44% | -10.5 | 31.4% | 3.0% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Hazel Strauch Elementary scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 37th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “44% proficient” and call it done. Hazel Strauch deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 24.0% of English learners met the ELA standard — versus 10.4% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 57th to the 37th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 44% meet the standard today, versus 49% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 45% | 50% | 49% | 51% | 46% |
| Grade 4 | 58% | 32% | 51% | 46% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 48% | 29% | 38% | 51% | 47% |
| Grade 6 | — | 37% | 46% | 43% | 58% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 48% | 49% | 54% | 57% | 49% |
| Grade 4 | 56% | 27% | 49% | 38% | 41% |
| Grade 5 | 41% | 9% | 17% | 41% | 28% |
| Grade 6 | — | 15% | 16% | 27% | 49% |
The story this school is actually telling
of students met or exceeded the standard, versus 42.7% statewide.
math proficiency runs 49% in grade 3 against 28% in grade 5, while reading holds (46% to 47%). The state average rises by +4.5pp over the same span.
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 6.8pp across grades; the proficiency floor barely moves. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. The ceiling holds — more kids exceed by grade 5 — but the floor slips: fewer clear the bar at all. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask the principal what changes between grade 3 and grade 5. Ask who teaches the older grades, and what the school does when a child starts falling behind.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
How every group of students does here
At Hazel Strauch Elementary in Sacramento, 48.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Hazel Strauch Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 13.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (41.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (49.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 36.8 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 293 students tested.
8 of 16 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 1.6pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +0.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$754 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 23% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 40
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 42
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 93 | 23% | 24% | 24% | 30% | 46% | +3 |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 26% | 24% | 22% | 28% | 50% | +5 |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 29% | 17% | 20% | 33% | 47% | −1 |
| Grade 6 | 76 | 29% | 29% | 22% | 20% | 58% | +11 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 93 | 23% | 27% | 25% | 26% | 49% | +4 |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 18% | 23% | 22% | 37% | 41% | −0 |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 21% | 7% | 29% | 43% | 28% | −7 |
| Grade 6 | 77 | 27% | 22% | 19% | 31% | 49% | +14 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 74 | 8% | 15% | 50% | 27% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 293 | 48.1% | +13 | +10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 211 | 49.8% | +14 | +11 |
| English Learners | 75 | 24.0% | +10 | +14 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Strauch Elementary ← | — | 38 | 23.3% | 43.6% | −10.5 | 3.0% |
| Woodlake Elementary | 2.1 mi | 42 | 9.4% | 27.3% | −3.0 | 9.9% |
| Jefferson | 1.4 mi | 39 | 10.8% | 30.7% | −1.0 | 5.5% |
| Natomas Park Elementary | 2.7 mi | 38 | 11.9% | 30.3% | −3.7 | 5.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 45 | 57 | #2341 | 18.2% | 49.4% | 12.7% | 3.2% | -1.6pp |
| 2022 | 16 | 4 | #5501 | 13.6% | 32.7% | 42.8% | 2.6% | -31.1pp |
| 2023 | 27 | 19 | #4633 | 22.4% | 42.9% | 35.8% | 4.2% | -24.3pp |
| 2024 | 42 | 51 | #2791 | 24.4% | 47.2% | 30.4% | 4.2% | -8.7pp |
| 2025 | 38 | 37 | #3639 | 23.3% | 43.6% | 31.4% | 3.0% | -10.5pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 10.3% | 33.8% | +23.5pp |
| Male | 15.0% | 30.7% | +15.7pp |
| Asian | 13.6% | 25.9% | +12.3pp |
| Black/African American | 22.8% | 28.6% | +5.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 11.5% | 32.7% | +21.2pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 16.7% | — | — |
| Two or More Races | 14.3% | 42.1% | +27.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 21.9% | 31.6% | +9.7pp |
| English Learners | 5.4% | 30.2% | +24.8pp |
| Homeless | 20.7% | 30.1% | +9.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 13.3% | 33.3% | +20.0pp |
| All Students | 12.7% | 32.2% | +19.5pp |
| Filipino | — | 44.4% | — |
| Pacific Islander | — | 31.8% | — |
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