Horace Mann UCLA Community: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Horace Mann UCLA Community posts 20% meeting the standard and 7.5% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 34 | 8% | 20% | +0.2 | 37.4% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Horace Mann UCLA Community scores 34 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 34th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “20% proficient” and call it done. Horace Mann UCLA Community deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 7th to the 34th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 400 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 20% of students meet the standard today, above the 9% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 16% | 11% | 17% | 8% | 21% |
| Grade 7 | 13% | 19% | 13% | 14% | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 11% | 10% | 24% | 9% | 22% |
| Grade 11 | — | 14% | 5% | 7% | 38% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 8% | 6% | 9% | 2% | 21% |
| Grade 7 | 1% | 2% | 9% | 13% | 21% |
| Grade 8 | 6% | 3% | 9% | 6% | 20% |
| Grade 11 | — | 4% | 0% | 0% | 12% |
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 rises 2.5pp across grades; the proficiency floor barely moves. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside 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 Horace Mann UCLA Community in Los Angeles, 20.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Horace Mann UCLA Community trails its district average for low-income students by 20.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (19.1% Math proficient); Black students (21.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.7 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 278 students tested.
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 1.3pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
Horace Mann UCLA Community serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$2,909 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 440 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 14% 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 Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 48
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 6 | 73 | 4% | 16% | 27% | 52% | 21% | −26 |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 2% | 13% | 19% | 66% | 15% | −32 |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 7% | 15% | 22% | 57% | 22% | −24 |
| Grade 11 | 34 | 9% | 29% | 38% | 24% | 38% | −9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 73 | 10% | 11% | 25% | 55% | 21% | −14 |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 12% | 9% | 23% | 56% | 21% | −13 |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 10% | 9% | 12% | 68% | 20% | −12 |
| Grade 11 | 34 | 0% | 12% | 18% | 71% | 12% | −12 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 139 | 3% | 11% | 63% | 23% |
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 | 278 | 20.1% | −21 | −18 |
| Black/African American | 158 | 21.5% | −14 | −11 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 130 | 23.1% | −18 | −16 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horace Mann UCLA Community ← | — | 34 | 7.5% | 19.8% | +0.2 | 0.6% |
| Vox Collegiate of Los Angeles | 1.6 mi | 49 | 12.8% | 31.5% | +12.6 | 0.6% |
| Libertas College Preparatory Charter | 1.4 mi | 49 | 14.8% | 40.4% | +4.6 | 0.2% |
| KIPP Scholar Academy | 1.5 mi | 46 | 11.6% | 32.6% | +2.1 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 20 | 7 | #1874 | 1.2% | 9.1% | 35.1% | 4.6% | -3.0pp |
| 2022 | 15 | 3 | #2099 | 0.8% | 8.6% | 59.8% | 3.0% | -2.0pp |
| 2023 | 32 | 28 | #1573 | 2.6% | 13.5% | 43.8% | 0.8% | +3.5pp |
| 2024 | 17 | 5 | #2098 | 1.9% | 8.7% | 34.9% | 0.6% | +2.5pp |
| 2025 | 34 | 34 | #1469 | 7.5% | 19.8% | 37.4% | 0.6% | +0.2pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 18 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 41.5% | 39.6% | -1.9pp |
| Male | 30.6% | 37.4% | +6.8pp |
| Black/African American | 40.5% | 37.1% | -3.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 28.4% | 39.0% | +10.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 35.6% | 39.3% | +3.7pp |
| English Learners | 30.1% | 35.6% | +5.5pp |
| Foster Youth | 46.7% | 61.9% | +15.2pp |
| Homeless | 54.3% | 53.3% | -1.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 38.6% | 39.0% | +0.4pp |
| All Students | 35.5% | 38.4% | +2.9pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 45.5% | — |
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