Itliong-Vera Cruz: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Itliong-Vera Cruz posts 51% meeting the standard, and 22.8% 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.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 48 | 23% | 51% | -1.9 | 12.0% | 3.0% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Itliong-Vera Cruz scores 48 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 66th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “51% proficient” and call it done. Itliong-Vera Cruz deserves a closer read. The school sits in Union City, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 53rd to the 66th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 200 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 51% of students meet the standard today, above the 46% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 44% | 57% | 58% | 61% | 54% |
| Grade 7 | 50% | 63% | 60% | 64% | 59% |
| Grade 8 | 46% | 59% | 62% | 55% | 56% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 40% | 41% | 40% | 45% | 49% |
| Grade 7 | 49% | 40% | 36% | 41% | 43% |
| Grade 8 | 46% | 35% | 38% | 35% | 43% |
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 1.7pp across grades; the floor rises 2.1pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- 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 Itliong-Vera Cruz in Union City, 44.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 39.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Itliong-Vera Cruz outperforms its district average for low-income students by 4.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.6% Math proficient); Asian students (67.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 52.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 572 students tested.
5 of 17 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 rises by 5.6pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +5.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
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.
$232 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), 38% 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 67
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 49
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 6 | 352 | 21% | 33% | 22% | 24% | 54% | +7 |
| Grade 7 | 346 | 24% | 35% | 19% | 21% | 59% | +12 |
| Grade 8 | 362 | 19% | 37% | 25% | 19% | 56% | +10 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 357 | 27% | 23% | 22% | 28% | 49% | +14 |
| Grade 7 | 348 | 24% | 19% | 27% | 30% | 43% | +9 |
| Grade 8 | 364 | 22% | 21% | 30% | 27% | 43% | +11 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 365 | 11% | 27% | 55% | 7% |
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 | 572 | 44.1% | +4 | +6 |
| Asian | 367 | 67.3% | +1 | −7 |
| Filipino | 303 | 64.0% | −1 | −8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itliong-Vera Cruz ← | — | 48 | 22.8% | 50.8% | −1.9 | 3.0% |
| Cesar Chavez Middle | 1.8 mi | 35 | 10.4% | 29.2% | +1.1 | 4.3% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40 | 53 | #946 | 20.1% | 46.0% | 42.6% | 7.3% | +4.1pp |
| 2022 | 47 | 72 | #596 | 21.1% | 49.0% | 18.1% | 2.2% | -2.0pp |
| 2023 | 51 | 73 | #592 | 21.1% | 49.2% | 9.0% | 6.5% | +0.7pp |
| 2024 | 44 | 65 | #776 | 21.8% | 50.4% | 14.1% | 3.8% | -8.5pp |
| 2025 | 48 | 66 | #751 | 22.8% | 50.8% | 12.0% | 3.0% | -1.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 41.8% | 12.4% | -29.4pp |
| Male | 43.5% | 11.5% | -32.0pp |
| Asian | 28.3% | 7.8% | -20.5pp |
| Black/African American | 54.7% | 18.4% | -36.3pp |
| White | 38.5% | 7.1% | -31.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 55.3% | 23.4% | -31.9pp |
| Pacific Islander | 70.4% | 31.8% | -38.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 44.4% | 12.5% | -31.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 48.0% | 28.2% | -19.8pp |
| English Learners | 35.0% | 27.8% | -7.2pp |
| Homeless | 72.7% | 33.3% | -39.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 46.5% | 17.1% | -29.4pp |
| All Students | 42.7% | 11.9% | -30.8pp |
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