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Irvine International Academy

Irvine, CA · Grades TK-8 · 530 students · Orange County Department of Education

Two in five kids exceed the standard. But this year's 5th graders test below its 3rd graders.

78% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 75% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

75%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

78%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

530

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

7%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · 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%2022: 83%2023: 76%2024: 82%2025: 75%2022: 74%2023: 73%2024: 90%2025: 78%20222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 83%2023: 76%2024: 82%2025: 75%2022: 74%2023: 73%2024: 90%2025: 78%2022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
202283%74%
202376%73%
202482%90%
202575%78%

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 2022 to 2025

Has held the 87th-percentile line every tested year since 2022.

Most rating sites would stop at “73% proficient” and call it done. Irvine International Academy deserves a closer read. One in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Irvine International Academy's low-income kids hit 67.3% 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.

As a charter, Irvine International Academy enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

214 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Irvine International Academy scores 59 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 87th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2022 · 91st percentile · Scope Score 68 of 1002023 · 95th percentile · Scope Score 76 of 1002024 · 98th percentile · Scope Score 79 of 1002025 · 87th percentile · Scope Score 59 of 100
ELAGreen(Declined Significantly)MathGreen(Declined Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 378%83%79%82%
Grade 450%74%84%59%
Grade 569%63%100%73%
Grade 689%85%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 389%90%80%89%
Grade 474%86%87%77%
Grade 577%63%83%57%
Grade 692%74%74%
Grade 782%78%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two-thirds of students here meet the standard. Two in five clear it by a lot.

ELA78% met or exceeded
Exceeded 56%Met 22%Nearly Met 16%Not Met 7%
Math75% met or exceeded
Exceeded 53%Met 22%Nearly Met 15%Not Met 10%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2022–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school5948%73%6.9%1.4%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope5939
% Exceeded48%21%
% Met+73%43%
Growth
Absence6.9%17.9%
Suspension1.4%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 88th percentile of elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +20 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 95th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.95th pctile · +20 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +12 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 80th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.80th pctile · +12 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 ahead of the same group statewide.

67.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. This comparison does not tell us what caused the difference.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 76% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 76%, district —, state 43%76%
AsianAsian: this school 81%, district 27%, state 72%81% · +5 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 76%, district 15%, state 44%76% · +0 vs school
MaleMale: this school 76%, district 10%, state 42%76% · −1 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 67%, district 9%, state 32%67% · −9 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 50%, district 23%, state 56%50% · −26 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 17%, district 1%, state 11%17% · −60 vs school

6 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

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 9.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school.

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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 elementary school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Asian72 studentsAsian, reading: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 72 students.+21 pts · +14 vs typical
English Only52 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 52 students.+21 pts · +18 vs typical
Low-income students37 studentsLow-income students, reading: +17 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.+17 pts · +17 vs typical
English Learner34 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +17 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 34 students.+17 pts · +19 vs typical
Math
Asian72 studentsAsian, math: +14 scale-score points versus expectation, against +16 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 72 students.+14 pts · −2 vs typical
English Only52 studentsEnglish Only, math: +10 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 52 students.+10 pts · +9 vs typical
Low-income students37 studentsLow-income students, math: +19 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.+19 pts · +20 vs typical
English Learner34 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +12 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 34 students.+12 pts · +10 vs typical
this school typical California elementary 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 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 23
Teaching staff23 teachers
Avg. experience4.6 years
Fully credentialed77%
First-year teachers17%
PrincipalStephanie Henry
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Teacher salary schedule$52,803 – $136,867
Principal salary$176,650 – $176,650
Superintendent salary$336,600

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

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

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 6.9%, district 14.6%, state 17.9%6.9% · −11.0pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.4%, district —, state 1.6%1.4% · −0.2pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2019–20

Its district spends $70,768 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $70,768, CA average $14,491$70,768 · district average
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 26%Instruction support 46%Student services 8%Administration 14%Buildings & maintenance 5%

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

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$70,768 per pupil
2019$67,286 per pupil
2018$61,708 per pupil
2017$32,576 per pupil
2016$30,374 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 66% 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 Latino2.5% · district 48.6% · CA 56.1%
White21.9% · district 22.7% · CA 19.9%
Asian64.3% · district 16.0% · CA 10.2%
Black2.1% · district 2.7% · CA 4.8%
Other9.3% · district 10.0% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch27.9% · CA 64%
Median income$134K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.06M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+66% · CA 35%
ZIP population26,491
Median age44 years

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

Culture & philosophy

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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

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

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SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Irvine International AcademyCharterStrong48%73%School being viewed
Santiago Hills ElementaryPublicStrong67%86%1.9 mi
Deerfield ElementaryPublicStrong56%76%0.8 mi
Eastshore ElementaryPublicStrong61%79%1.3 mi
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Frequently asked questions

Is Irvine International Academy a good elementary school?
Irvine International Academy has a Scope Score of 59 out of 100, placing it in the 87th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #766 statewide. 48.3% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 26.9 percentage points above the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 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 Irvine International Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 72.7% of students at Irvine International Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 48.3% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 24.4% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 48.3% 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. 279 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Irvine International Academy rank in California?
Irvine International Academy ranks #766 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 87th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Irvine International Academy?
6.9% of students at Irvine International Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 1.4%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. 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 Irvine International Academy compare to other schools in Irvine?
Irvine International Academy scores 59/100 (87th percentile) among California elementary 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 530 students. Use the schools in Irvine page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Irvine International Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Irvine International Academy in Irvine, 67.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 14.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Irvine International Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 52.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (67.3% Math proficient); Asian students (81.2% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 52 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

How far the top scorers get carries this score.

48.3% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard48.3%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded72.7%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism6.9%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.4%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-19.9pp-2.9pp

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

Irvine International Academy: reading the evidence

Irvine International Academy is one of the strongest elementary schools in Irvine by raw achievement. The catch worth understanding: the cohort doesn't gain ground year-over-year.

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

Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.

Explore the underlying data →
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.

Irvine International Academy is ranked #766 statewide · #3 of 13 in Orange County Department of Education.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard48.3%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded72.7%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism6.9%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.4%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-19.9pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 76 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 73 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 68 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 3.2pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 52 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.0pp higher vs 2024
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↓ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 36166%16%15%3%82%+39
Grade 42938%21%31%10%59%+14
Grade 54951%22%18%8%73%+26
Grade 63450%35%15%0%85%+39
Grade 72665%23%0%12%88%+41
Grade 81560%13%13%13%73%+27
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 36164%25%10%2%89%+43
Grade 43037%40%13%10%77%+35
Grade 54935%22%18%24%57%+22
Grade 63459%15%21%6%74%+39
Grade 72763%15%11%11%78%+44
Grade 81573%0%20%7%73%+41

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
Schoolwide6445%20%31%3%

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 Disadvantaged5267.3%+53+29
Asian13381.2%+41+7
03Nearest elementary 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
Irvine International Academy ←5948.3%72.7%−19.9pp1.4%
Santiago Hills Elementary1.9 mi9066.6%86.0%+3.7pp0.7%
Deerfield Elementary0.8 mi8255.7%75.7%+9.1pp0.9%
Eastshore Elementary1.3 mi8061.1%79.4%+10.7pp0.7%
California average3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20226891#53546.5%72.9%17.9%1.3%-10.5pp
20237695#27456.9%76.2%15.0%0.9%-23.7pp
20247998#11461.4%85.7%10.1%0.4%+12.0pp
20255987#76648.3%72.7%6.9%1.4%-19.9pp
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.
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+20116Exceptional+12116Accelerated
Asian+2172Exceptional+1472Accelerated
English Only+2152not categorised+1052not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+1737Accelerated+1937Accelerated
English Learner+1734Accelerated+1234Accelerated
White+1826Accelerated+526Accelerated
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+1420not categorised+1920not categorised
English Learners Only+2414not categorised+214not 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. 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=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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