Innovative Horizons Charter: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Innovative Horizons Charter posts 31% meeting the standard and 11.8% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40 | 12% | 31% | -7.4 | 18.9% | 1.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Innovative Horizons Charter scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 43rd percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “31% proficient” and call it done. Innovative Horizons Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Perris, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Innovative Horizons Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 6th to the 43rd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1900 elementary schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 31% meet the standard today, versus 36% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 55% | 31% | 31% | 25% | 39% |
| Grade 4 | 36% | 33% | 33% | 27% | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 33% | 29% | 40% | 42% | 34% |
| Grade 6 | 39% | 41% | 31% | 32% | 43% |
| Grade 7 | 42% | 28% | 40% | 42% | 46% |
| Grade 8 | 48% | 41% | 33% | 50% | 45% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54% | 29% | 26% | 24% | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 32% | 17% | 23% | 25% | 24% |
| Grade 5 | 7% | 9% | 18% | 22% | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 22% | 7% | 6% | 9% | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 18% | 7% | 10% | 17% | 19% |
| Grade 8 | 19% | 9% | 14% | 20% | 20% |
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 falls 8.8pp across grades; the floor slips 4.7pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. 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.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 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 Innovative Horizons Charter in Perris, 39.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 31.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Innovative Horizons Charter outperforms its district average for low-income students by 8.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (39.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 28.8 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 543 students tested.
7 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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 5.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -1.9pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (35.2% vs 16.4%). 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 is estimated from nearby schools in the same district — 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.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,029 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 894 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 26% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 50
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 92 | 22% | 17% | 26% | 35% | 39% | −4 |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 14% | 18% | 27% | 41% | 32% | −13 |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 13% | 22% | 33% | 32% | 34% | −13 |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 11% | 33% | 30% | 26% | 43% | −3 |
| Grade 7 | 118 | 10% | 36% | 28% | 26% | 46% | −2 |
| Grade 8 | 116 | 13% | 32% | 33% | 22% | 45% | −1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 92 | 10% | 23% | 27% | 40% | 33% | −13 |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 4% | 20% | 31% | 44% | 24% | −17 |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 8% | 15% | 35% | 42% | 23% | −13 |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 7% | 7% | 29% | 58% | 13% | −22 |
| Grade 7 | 118 | 5% | 14% | 32% | 49% | 19% | −15 |
| Grade 8 | 116 | 9% | 10% | 27% | 53% | 20% | −12 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 209 | 5% | 21% | 58% | 16% |
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 | 543 | 39.8% | +9 | +2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 552 | 39.7% | +8 | +1 |
| English Learners | 171 | 11.7% | +1 | +1 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovative Horizons Charter ← | — | 40 | 11.8% | 30.9% | −7.4 | 1.7% |
| May Ranch Elementary | 2.8 mi | 56 | 22.6% | 44.4% | +18.4 | 0.4% |
| Skyview Academy | 1.3 mi | 48 | 13.1% | 35.0% | +11.5 | 1.3% |
| Val Verde Academy | 2.8 mi | 46 | 9.4% | 31.3% | — | 3.2% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 23 | 6 | #5161 | 11.4% | 35.9% | 3.8% | 2.3% | -34.5pp |
| 2022 | 17 | 5 | #5444 | 8.1% | 24.5% | 38.3% | 4.2% | -11.4pp |
| 2023 | 34 | 36 | #3659 | 9.2% | 28.4% | 27.3% | 4.5% | +0.1pp |
| 2024 | 37 | 38 | #3570 | 9.3% | 27.3% | 18.8% | 1.4% | +7.8pp |
| 2025 | 40 | 43 | #3260 | 11.8% | 30.9% | 18.9% | 1.7% | -7.4pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.4% | 18.5% | +14.1pp |
| Male | 2.9% | 19.5% | +16.6pp |
| Black/African American | 8.0% | 19.4% | +11.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 3.4% | 19.0% | +15.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 1.7% | 18.3% | +16.6pp |
| English Learners | 3.0% | 19.2% | +16.2pp |
| Homeless | 7.1% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 4.0% | 19.6% | +15.6pp |
| All Students | 3.7% | 19.0% | +15.3pp |
| Filipino | — | 23.1% | — |
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