Indian Valley Elementary: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Indian Valley pairs 65% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 68 | 37% | 65% | +7.3 | 10.5% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Indian Valley Elementary scores 68 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 90th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🚀 Growth Engine — Ask how the school tracks each kid's growth year to year, and what happens when a kid stalls instead of gaining.
Most rating sites would stop at “65% proficient” and call it done. Indian Valley deserves a closer read. It sits at the 90th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: +7.3pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 90th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 65% meet the standard today, versus 73% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 68% | 55% | 55% | 55% | 55% |
| Grade 4 | 85% | 74% | 64% | 62% | 65% |
| Grade 5 | 74% | 71% | 70% | 70% | 74% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66% | 66% | 71% | 64% | 73% |
| Grade 4 | 80% | 73% | 69% | 79% | 56% |
| Grade 5 | 62% | 69% | 64% | 57% | 68% |
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 24.2pp across grades; the floor rises 19.4pp. 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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 Indian Valley Elementary in Walnut Creek, 38.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 47.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Indian Valley Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 9.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (42.9% Math proficient); White students (64.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 31.2 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 34 students tested.
5 of 14 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (14.6% vs 7.1%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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
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), 57% 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
3 within ~3 mi · avg 74
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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 | 69 | 29% | 26% | 33% | 12% | 55% | +12 |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 38% | 27% | 16% | 19% | 65% | +20 |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 53% | 21% | 21% | 4% | 74% | +27 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 70 | 29% | 44% | 16% | 11% | 73% | +27 |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 33% | 22% | 29% | 16% | 56% | +14 |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 40% | 28% | 23% | 9% | 68% | +33 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 47 | 23% | 34% | 38% | 4% |
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 | 34 | 38.2% | −10 | +0 |
| White | 71 | 64.8% | −9 | +3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 29 | 34.5% | −22 | −4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Valley Elementary ← | — | 68 | 37.1% | 65.2% | +7.3 | 0.6% |
| Tice Creek | 2.1 mi | 76 | 59.1% | 84.0% | −9.2 | 1.0% |
| Alamo Elementary | 2.3 mi | 75 | 56.9% | 85.8% | −11.4 | 0.1% |
| Buena Vista Elementary | 2.2 mi | 70 | 51.4% | 73.7% | −1.3 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 73 | 93 | #410 | 42.6% | 72.7% | 4.5% | 0.0% | +0.8pp |
| 2022 | 68 | 93 | #403 | 41.0% | 68.0% | 19.5% | 0.0% | +9.4pp |
| 2023 | 66 | 90 | #578 | 39.6% | 65.7% | 16.7% | 0.3% | +4.2pp |
| 2024 | 63 | 86 | #815 | 35.2% | 64.5% | 14.3% | 0.9% | +3.9pp |
| 2025 | 68 | 90 | #585 | 37.1% | 65.2% | 10.5% | 0.6% | +7.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.9% | 9.4% | +3.5pp |
| Male | 2.9% | 10.4% | +7.5pp |
| Asian | 2.7% | 6.1% | +3.4pp |
| Filipino | 18.2% | 16.7% | -1.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 3.2% | 19.4% | +16.2pp |
| Two or More Races | 8.3% | 6.3% | -2.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 2.4% | 25.0% | +22.6pp |
| English Learners | 5.1% | 15.2% | +10.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 11.1% | 13.3% | +2.2pp |
| All Students | 4.3% | 9.9% | +5.6pp |
| Black/African American | — | 0.0% | — |
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