Hickman Charter: The score trails the state median. The trajectory doesn't.
Hickman Charter still trails on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 39 | 13% | 31% | +4.3 | 2.1% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Hickman Charter scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 42nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “31% proficient” and call it done. Hickman Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Hickman, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 2.1% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
As a charter, Hickman Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 60th to the 42nd percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 31% meet the standard today, versus 44% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 49% | 33% | 42% | 37% | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 40% | 50% | 33% | 35% | 35% |
| Grade 5 | 53% | 53% | 38% | 45% | 43% |
| Grade 6 | 73% | 51% | 56% | 35% | 49% |
| Grade 7 | 71% | 70% | 50% | 62% | 52% |
| Grade 8 | 73% | 63% | 64% | 62% | 63% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 42% | 33% | 24% | 38% | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 47% | 25% | 12% | 14% | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 22% | 15% | 12% | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 49% | 36% | 40% | 11% | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 61% | 50% | 36% | 38% | 22% |
| Grade 8 | 45% | 25% | 44% | 35% | 35% |
The story this school is actually telling
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 9.8pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- 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.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Hickman Charter in Hickman, 41.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Hickman Charter trails its district average for low-income students by 4.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.7% Math proficient); White students (46.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 7.8 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 146 students tested.
10 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 16.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.4pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below is estimated from nearby schools in the same district — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
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.
$13 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), 39% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 46
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 66 | 11% | 23% | 29% | 38% | 33% | −10 |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 19% | 17% | 35% | 29% | 35% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 11% | 32% | 29% | 28% | 43% | −5 |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 4% | 45% | 28% | 23% | 49% | +2 |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 10% | 43% | 33% | 14% | 52% | +5 |
| Grade 8 | 48 | 10% | 52% | 21% | 17% | 63% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66 | 12% | 11% | 26% | 52% | 23% | −23 |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 13% | 15% | 46% | 27% | 27% | −15 |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 11% | 11% | 28% | 51% | 22% | −14 |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 4% | 24% | 28% | 43% | 28% | −7 |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 3% | 19% | 40% | 38% | 22% | −12 |
| Grade 8 | 48 | 13% | 23% | 27% | 38% | 35% | +3 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 110 | 15% | 25% | 52% | 9% |
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 | 146 | 41.8% | −4 | +4 |
| White | 202 | 46.5% | −8 | −15 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 95 | 35.8% | −9 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hickman Charter ← | — | 39 | 12.6% | 30.5% | +4.3 | 0.1% |
| Hickman Elementary | 0.1 mi | 48 | 19.7% | 55.3% | −12.3 | 0.7% |
| Connecting Waters Charter | 1.6 mi | 45 | 12.4% | 32.7% | +1.0 | 0.2% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 47 | 60 | #2178 | 22.8% | 43.6% | 0.2% | 0.0% | -4.1pp |
| 2022 | 44 | 69 | #1805 | 13.3% | 35.9% | 0.7% | 0.0% | +4.5pp |
| 2023 | 34 | 37 | #3581 | 10.4% | 27.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | -5.9pp |
| 2024 | 37 | 37 | #3637 | 10.8% | 30.2% | 1.9% | 0.1% | -8.8pp |
| 2025 | 39 | 42 | #3359 | 12.6% | 30.5% | 2.1% | 0.1% | +4.3pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 0.0% | 0.6% | +0.6pp |
| Male | 0.0% | 0.9% | +0.9pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | 10.5% | +10.5pp |
| Filipino | 0.0% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.0% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 0.0% | 1.8% | +1.8pp |
| All Students | 0.0% | 0.8% | +0.8pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 2.9% | — |
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