Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Hubert Howe Bancroft posts 32% meeting the standard and 10.4% 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 | 41 | 10% | 32% | -6.3 | 24.4% | 1.5% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 50th 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 “32% proficient” and call it done. Hubert Howe Bancroft deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 22nd to the 50th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 400 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 32% of students meet the standard today, above the 23% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 30% | 21% | 18% | 27% | 42% |
| Grade 7 | 35% | 33% | 36% | 30% | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 27% | 36% | 28% | 34% | 32% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 15% | 16% | 8% | 11% | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 18% | 13% | 18% | 15% | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 17% | 14% | 11% | 16% | 23% |
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 slips 10.3pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. 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 what changes between grade 6 and grade 8 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle in Los Angeles, 36.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 4.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (26.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (33.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 30.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 396 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 9.0pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
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
$2,855 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 457 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 18% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 107 | 7% | 36% | 16% | 42% | 42% | −4 |
| Grade 7 | 164 | 10% | 28% | 24% | 37% | 38% | −9 |
| Grade 8 | 167 | 5% | 26% | 26% | 42% | 32% | −14 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 107 | 12% | 13% | 23% | 51% | 25% | −10 |
| Grade 7 | 164 | 14% | 18% | 27% | 40% | 32% | −2 |
| Grade 8 | 166 | 14% | 9% | 20% | 57% | 23% | −9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 165 | 4% | 14% | 65% | 17% |
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 | 396 | 36.1% | −5 | −2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 304 | 33.6% | −7 | −5 |
| Students with Disabilities | 77 | 10.4% | −6 | −7 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle ← | — | 41 | 10.4% | 32.1% | −6.3 | 1.5% |
| Magnolia Science Academy 6 | 2.4 mi | 58 | 22.9% | 48.2% | +13.4 | 3.7% |
| John Burroughs Middle | 1.7 mi | 54 | 28.8% | 55.9% | −1.6 | 1.6% |
| Joseph Le Conte Middle | 1.1 mi | 27 | 6.8% | 22.1% | +2.6 | 1.6% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 28 | 22 | #1557 | 6.8% | 23.5% | 15.0% | 2.5% | -0.8pp |
| 2022 | 34 | 44 | #1215 | 5.4% | 22.1% | 30.2% | 1.8% | +6.1pp |
| 2023 | 35 | 34 | #1433 | 5.8% | 19.7% | 29.2% | 2.4% | +5.8pp |
| 2024 | 31 | 34 | #1459 | 6.2% | 22.3% | 27.1% | 3.3% | +6.1pp |
| 2025 | 41 | 50 | #1119 | 10.4% | 32.1% | 24.4% | 1.5% | -6.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 13.6% | 22.8% | +9.2pp |
| Male | 16.4% | 26.2% | +9.8pp |
| Asian | 8.3% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 37.5% | 41.8% | +4.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 10.6% | 20.6% | +10.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 22.6% | 29.2% | +6.6pp |
| English Learners | 12.0% | 27.7% | +15.7pp |
| Homeless | 28.6% | 47.8% | +19.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 15.5% | 25.2% | +9.7pp |
| All Students | 15.0% | 24.6% | +9.6pp |
| Filipino | — | 13.3% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 28.6% | — |
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