Iftin Charter: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Iftin Charter posts 25% meeting the standard and 8.9% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
Iftin Charter scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 39th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
Most rating sites would stop at “25% proficient” and call it done. Iftin Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in San Diego, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Iftin Charter enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 12.3pp across grades; the floor rises 20.6pp. The state average rises 4.5pp 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 5 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.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — 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.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 70
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 52
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 61
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 21.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.3pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 55 | 7% | 9% | 20% | 64% | 16% | −27 |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 13% | 11% | 25% | 52% | 23% | −22 |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 20% | 17% | 22% | 41% | 37% | −11 |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 12% | 26% | 19% | 42% | 38% | −8 |
| Grade 7 | 57 | 12% | 33% | 26% | 28% | 46% | −2 |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 22% | 24% | 31% | 22% | 47% | +0 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 58 | 5% | 17% | 16% | 62% | 22% | −23 |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 3% | 21% | 34% | 42% | 24% | −17 |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 6% | 19% | 31% | 44% | 25% | −10 |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 18% | 21% | 14% | 47% | 38% | +3 |
| Grade 7 | 64 | 13% | 17% | 25% | 45% | 30% | −4 |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 16% | 25% | 20% | 39% | 41% | +9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 111 | 4% | 16% | 55% | 25% |
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 | 286 | 36.7% | +26 | −2 |
| Black/African American | 273 | 38.1% | +33 | +5 |
| English Learners | 163 | 12.3% | +12 | +2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iftin Charter ← | — | 38 | 8.9% | 24.7% | +11.6 | 0.1% |
| Green Elementary | 3.3 mi | 71 | 49.0% | 77.2% | +8.1 | 0.3% |
| Hearst Elementary | 1.9 mi | 71 | 48.1% | 78.5% | −3.1 | 0.8% |
| Hardy Elementary | 0.9 mi | 68 | 38.8% | 66.3% | −0.4 | 1.6% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.