Home INstead INnovation Academy: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Home INstead INnovation Academy posts 47% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42 | 20% | 47% | -17.4 | 6.1% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Home INstead INnovation Academy scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 50th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “47% proficient” and call it done. Home INstead INnovation Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Temecula, Ca, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Home INstead INnovation Academy's low-income kids hit 54.7% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 60th to the 50th percentile since 2022.
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 63% | 43% | 61% |
| Grade 4 | 58% | 63% | 45% | 58% |
| Grade 5 | 54% | 75% | 68% | 48% |
| Grade 6 | 55% | 43% | 55% | 55% |
| Grade 7 | 72% | 69% | 73% | 72% |
| Grade 8 | 58% | 79% | 69% | 62% |
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 49% | 37% | 38% | 50% |
| Grade 4 | 40% | 45% | 36% | 38% |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 41% | 26% | 28% |
| Grade 6 | 33% | 26% | 40% | 59% |
| Grade 7 | 31% | 43% | 43% | 59% |
| Grade 8 | 42% | 43% | 48% | 59% |
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 falls 18.5pp across grades; the floor slips 12.4pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Home INstead INnovation Academy's most underrated number
54.7% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- 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.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Home INstead INnovation Academy in Temecula, Ca, 54.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 52.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Home INstead INnovation Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 1.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (46.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (63.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 5.7 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 106 students tested.
8 of 15 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 falls by 7.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. 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
$451 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
At 254 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 41% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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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 | 28 | 36% | 25% | 18% | 21% | 61% | +17 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 25% | 33% | 21% | 21% | 58% | +14 |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 17% | 31% | 31% | 21% | 48% | +0 |
| Grade 6 | 40 | 28% | 28% | 33% | 13% | 55% | +8 |
| Grade 7 | 54 | 22% | 50% | 11% | 17% | 72% | +25 |
| Grade 8 | 68 | 29% | 32% | 26% | 12% | 62% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 28 | 21% | 29% | 21% | 29% | 50% | +4 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 13% | 25% | 33% | 29% | 38% | −4 |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 7% | 21% | 38% | 34% | 28% | −8 |
| Grade 6 | 39 | 36% | 23% | 18% | 23% | 59% | +24 |
| Grade 7 | 54 | 35% | 24% | 22% | 19% | 59% | +25 |
| Grade 8 | 68 | 31% | 28% | 26% | 15% | 59% | +27 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 97 | 16% | 25% | 52% | 7% |
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 | 106 | 54.7% | +2 | +16 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 66 | 63.6% | +8 | +25 |
| White | 60 | 65.0% | −3 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home INstead INnovation Academy ← | — | 42 | 19.8% | 47.1% | −17.4 | 0.3% |
| Red Hawk Elementary | 2.7 mi | 67 | 38.9% | 67.4% | +8.6 | 0.5% |
| Abby Reinke Elementary | 1.4 mi | 67 | 44.5% | 74.1% | −8.7 | 1.5% |
| Rancho Elementary | 1.5 mi | 59 | 33.8% | 62.0% | −15.9 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 40 | 60 | #2322 | 22.4% | 49.2% | 9.8% | 0.0% | -14.1pp |
| 2023 | 58 | 82 | #1009 | 29.7% | 53.9% | 8.4% | 0.0% | +7.8pp |
| 2024 | 46 | 59 | #2346 | 22.0% | 42.7% | 8.6% | 0.2% | +6.3pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 50 | #2896 | 19.8% | 47.1% | 6.1% | 0.3% | -17.4pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 3.7% | — |
| Male | — | 4.2% | — |
| Asian | — | 0.0% | — |
| Black/African American | — | 0.0% | — |
| White | — | 0.0% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 6.3% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 2.0% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 1.7% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 5.0% | — |
| All Students | — | 3.9% | — |
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