International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 51 | 17% | 38% | +3.0 | 13.7% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 74th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “38% proficient” and call it done. International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi deserves a closer read. It sits at the 74th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi's low-income kids hit 51.2% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 33rd to the 74th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 800 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 38% of students meet the standard today, above the 33% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 39% | 49% | 33% | 29% | 46% |
| Grade 7 | 43% | 55% | 32% | 45% | 47% |
| Grade 8 | 49% | 46% | 47% | 45% | 45% |
| Grade 11 | 74% | 82% | 83% | 63% | 79% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 25% | 21% | 20% | 16% | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 20% | 17% | 17% | 32% | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 23% | 16% | 17% | 11% | 34% |
| Grade 11 | 51% | 37% | 40% | 30% | 40% |
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 3.8pp across grades; the proficiency floor barely moves. The state average falls 0.5pp 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.
International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi's most underrated number
51.2% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
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 whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi in South Gate, 51.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi outperforms its district average for low-income students by 10.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (51.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 37.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 449 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 2.6pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$1,132 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 26% 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.
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 47
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 65
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 nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 142 | 16% | 30% | 30% | 24% | 46% | −0 |
| Grade 7 | 150 | 19% | 29% | 26% | 27% | 47% | −0 |
| Grade 8 | 140 | 20% | 25% | 22% | 33% | 45% | −1 |
| Grade 11 | 86 | 43% | 36% | 9% | 12% | 79% | +32 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 142 | 11% | 15% | 30% | 44% | 26% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 150 | 16% | 15% | 24% | 45% | 31% | −3 |
| Grade 8 | 140 | 19% | 15% | 19% | 47% | 34% | +1 |
| Grade 11 | 86 | 16% | 23% | 36% | 24% | 40% | +16 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 236 | 4% | 22% | 59% | 15% |
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 · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 449 | 51.2% | +10 | +13 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 516 | 51.7% | +11 | +13 |
| Students with Disabilities | 52 | 17.3% | +1 | +0 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Studies Learning Center at Legacy Hi ← | — | 51 | 16.8% | 38.2% | +3.0 | 0.1% |
| Whaley Middle | 2.7 mi | 56 | 20.1% | 46.9% | −4.9 | 0.5% |
| South Gate Middle | 1.4 mi | 44 | 14.1% | 34.8% | −0.5 | 0.0% |
| Stauffer (Mary R.) Middle | 1.4 mi | 43 | 18.8% | 44.5% | −6.9 | 6.9% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 32 | 33 | #1354 | 11.5% | 33.4% | 13.7% | 0.0% | +4.1pp |
| 2022 | 31 | 34 | #1426 | 9.8% | 34.1% | 29.2% | 0.2% | -4.3pp |
| 2023 | 40 | 50 | #1094 | 6.7% | 27.9% | 21.0% | 0.2% | +5.4pp |
| 2024 | 29 | 29 | #1571 | 10.0% | 29.7% | 17.4% | 0.1% | +5.5pp |
| 2025 | 51 | 74 | #582 | 16.8% | 38.2% | 13.7% | 0.1% | +3.0pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.2% | 13.5% | -0.7pp |
| Male | 13.2% | 13.5% | +0.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.8% | 13.5% | -0.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 25.0% | 14.8% | -10.2pp |
| English Learners | 23.7% | 17.0% | -6.7pp |
| Homeless | 11.1% | 13.3% | +2.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 15.1% | 14.1% | -1.0pp |
| All Students | 13.7% | 13.5% | -0.2pp |
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