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Ingrid B. Lacy Middle

Pacifica, CA · Grades 6-8 · 484 students · Pacifica

Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.

56% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 51% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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What this means for your family

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DistrictPacifica
PrincipalCathy Alderson
Grades6-8
Enrollment484 students

Math

51%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

56%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

484

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

16%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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The overall score is a starting point.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 48%2022: 55%2023: 54%2024: 55%2025: 51%2019: 59%2022: 55%2023: 52%2024: 57%2025: 56%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 48%2022: 55%2023: 54%2024: 55%2025: 51%2019: 59%2022: 55%2023: 52%2024: 57%2025: 56%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201948%59%
202255%55%
202354%52%
202455%57%
202551%56%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Has stayed near the 69th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “53% proficient” and call it done. Ingrid B. Lacy deserves a closer read. It sits at the 69th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

466 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 159 tracked

Ingrid B. Lacy Middle scores 44 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 69th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 53% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 73rd percentile · Scope Score 49 of 1002022 · 83rd percentile · Scope Score 54 of 1002023 · 81st percentile · Scope Score 51 of 1002024 · 79th percentile · Scope Score 50 of 1002025 · 69th percentile · Scope Score 44 of 100
ELAYellow(Maintained)MathYellow(Declined)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 658%58%48%55%57%
Grade 754%56%61%53%57%
Grade 861%53%56%59%55%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 654%54%50%55%55%
Grade 751%61%57%51%47%
Grade 843%56%59%54%47%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

More than half of students here meet the standard. One in five clear it by a lot.

ELA56% met or exceeded
Exceeded 21%Met 35%Nearly Met 22%Not Met 22%
Math50% met or exceeded
Exceeded 29%Met 21%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 27%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)AbsenceSuspension
This school4425%53%Below avg · p4015.6%3.6%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%Average · p5018.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope4439
% Exceeded25%17%
% Met+53%40%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Below avg · p40Average · p50
Absence15.6%18.1%
Suspension3.6%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 31st percentile in reading against the 54th in math, among middle schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 31st percentile of California middle schools in reading and the 54th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 40th. A gap that size between math and reading in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 6
19%
exceeded standard · 48% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 8
21%
exceeded standard · 55% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 40th percentile among California middle schools.40th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 31st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.31st pctile · −4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +2 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 54th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.54th pctile · +2 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard about even with the same group statewide.

At Ingrid B. Lacy Middle in Pacifica, 36.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ingrid B. Lacy Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (25.0% Math proficient); White students (61.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 43.9 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 89 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 53% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 53%, district —, state 40%53%
FemaleFemale: this school 58%, district 57%, state 44%58% · +5 vs school
MaleMale: this school 48%, district 49%, state 42%48% · −5 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 59%, district 57%, state 56%59% · +6 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 35%, district 38%, state 32%35% · −18 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 31%, district 34%, state 32%31% · −23 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 11%, district 16%, state 15%11% · −42 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 64%, district 62%, state 56%64% · +11 vs school
FilipinoFilipino: this school 54%, district 52%, state 65%54% · +1 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 80%, district 69%, state 72%80% · +27 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 10%, district 14%, state 11%10% · −43 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: too few students to report‹11
American Indian/Alaska NativeAmerican Indian/Alaska Native: too few students to report‹11
Pacific IslanderPacific Islander: too few students to report‹11
HomelessHomeless: too few students to report‹11
this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 20.7pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +11.9pp.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only354 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 354 students.−7 pts · −7 vs typical
White157 studentsWhite, reading: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 157 students.−1 pts · −1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students120 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −9 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 120 students.−9 pts · −7 vs typical
Low-income students88 studentsLow-income students, reading: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 88 students.−1 pts · +2 vs typical
Students with disabilities66 studentsStudents with disabilities, reading: −21 scale-score points versus expectation, against −13 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 66 students.−21 pts · −8 vs typical
Math
English Only352 studentsEnglish Only, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 352 students.+2 pts · +5 vs typical
White156 studentsWhite, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 156 students.+2 pts · +1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students120 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 120 students.−1 pts · +5 vs typical
Low-income students88 studentsLow-income students, math: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 88 students.+3 pts · +8 vs typical
Students with disabilities66 studentsStudents with disabilities, math: −13 scale-score points versus expectation, against −8 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 66 students.−13 pts · −5 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 3 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 20 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher20 · district 22
Teaching staff28 teachers
Avg. experience13.1 years
Fully credentialed73%
PrincipalCathy Alderson
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 15.6%, district 13.4%, state 18.1%15.6% · −2.5pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 3.6%, district —, state 3.6%3.6% · −0.0pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–615.8%
Grades 7–815.4%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $16,530 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$639 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $16,530, CA average $14,491$16,530 · spent at this school
Federal share$639 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$17,002 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 66%Instruction support 12%Student services 4%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 10%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,231 per pupil
2019$11,209 per pupil
2018$11,417 per pupil
2017$10,791 per pupil
2016$10,697 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

One in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 36% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino28.9% · district 26.4% · CA 56.1%
White34.9% · district 39.0% · CA 19.9%
Asian6.8% · district 8.2% · CA 10.2%
Black2.1% · district 1.1% · CA 4.8%
Other27.3% · district 25.2% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch19.0% · CA 64%
Median income$160K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.25M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+49% · CA 35%
ZIP population37,274
Median age45 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Ingrid B. Lacy MiddlePublicSolid25%53%School being viewed
Westborough MiddlePublicSolid24%54%1.8 mi
Fernando Rivera IntermediatePublicSolid18%47%2.7 mi
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Worth a school visit

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Ingrid B. Lacy Middle a good middle school?
Ingrid B. Lacy Middle has a Scope Score of 44 out of 100, placing it in the 69th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #677 statewide. 24.9% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 7.8 percentage points above the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Ingrid B. Lacy Middle's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 53.0% of students at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 24.9% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 28.0% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 24.9% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 928 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Ingrid B. Lacy Middle rank in California?
Ingrid B. Lacy Middle ranks #677 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 69th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
Is Ingrid B. Lacy Middle getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Ingrid B. Lacy Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks below avg among California middle schools — roughly the 40th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the middle Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle?
15.6% of students at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 3.6%. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Ingrid B. Lacy Middle compare to other schools in Pacifica?
Ingrid B. Lacy Middle scores 44/100 (69th percentile) among California middle schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 484 students. Use the schools in Pacifica page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Ingrid B. Lacy Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Ingrid B. Lacy Middle in Pacifica, 36.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ingrid B. Lacy Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (25.0% Math proficient); White students (61.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 43.9 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 89 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 6 things our score weighs

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 38 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard24.9%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded53.0%40.0%23%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Below avgaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism15.6%18.1%5%
Suspension rate3.6%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)18.8%18.0%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Ingrid B. Lacy Middle: reading the evidence

Ingrid B. Lacy posts 53% meeting the standard, and 24.9% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Ingrid B. Lacy Middle is ranked #677 statewide · #4 of 4 in Pacifica.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard24.9%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded53.0%40.0%23%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Below avgaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism15.6%18.1%5%
Suspension rate3.6%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)18.8%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 17.2% · index 59 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 40.0% · index 61 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
↓ vs CA average · 40th pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 54 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 3.2pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 50 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.7pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 47 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 616024%33%20%23%57%+11
Grade 714618%38%17%26%57%+9
Grade 816021%34%28%17%55%+9
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 615935%21%18%27%55%+21
Grade 714426%22%31%22%47%+13
Grade 815926%21%23%30%47%+14

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide15911%26%47%16%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged8936.0%+0−2
White16661.4%+3−0
Hispanic/Latino13036.9%−3−2
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Ingrid B. Lacy Middle ←—4424.9%53.0%−5.3pp+38 pts3.6%
Westborough Middle1.8 mi4424.1%54.2%+6.5pp—7.8%
Fernando Rivera Intermediate2.7 mi3817.7%46.7%−2.5pp—1.8%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20194973#52124.4%53.4%10.6%3.9%-3.9pp
20225483#34926.0%56.5%16.4%3.6%-1.9pp
20235181#39423.6%54.9%14.4%2.3%+8.7pp
20245079#44724.6%54.5%18.8%4.3%+1.7pp
20254469#67724.9%53.0%15.6%3.6%-5.3pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female9.5%14.3%+4.8pp
Male11.5%16.8%+5.3pp
Asian4.9%8.8%+3.9pp
Filipino9.6%8.6%-1.0pp
Hispanic/Latino12.7%22.1%+9.4pp
Two or More Races9.0%14.3%+5.3pp
White9.6%12.8%+3.2pp
Students with Disabilities24.0%27.4%+3.4pp
English Learners18.2%23.5%+5.3pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged18.9%30.3%+11.4pp
All Students10.6%15.5%+4.9pp
Black/African American—27.3%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−4439Average+2437Average
English Only−7354not categorised+2352not categorised
White−1157Average+2156Average
Hispanic or Latino−9120Moderate−1120Average
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−188Average+388Average
Students with Disabilities−2166Minimal−1366Moderate
Two or More Races−262Average+663Accelerated
Filipino−156Average+1055Accelerated
English Learner−346Average+546Accelerated
Asian+432Average+1732Accelerated
English Learners Only−129not categorised+429not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)−919Moderate−619Moderate
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only−817not categorised+917not categorised

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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