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J. H. Hull Middle: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.

J. H. Hull posts 46% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.

2080 West 231st Street, 90501 (opens in new tab)·Torrance Unified·Torrance·Grades 6-8·621 students·50% low-income·2024–25 CAASPP·(310) 533-4516
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
This schoolCA avg
Scope4138
% Exceeded20%17%
% Met+46%39%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Below avg · p41Average · p50
Absence15.8%18.5%
Suspension6.6%3.7%
Scope Score
41
🌱 Building Momentum · Developing
ranked #856 statewide · #8 of 8 in Torrance Unified

J. H. Hull Middle scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 62nd percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →

🌱 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.

CDE CAASPP 2025

Most rating sites would stop at “46% proficient” and call it done. J. H. Hull deserves a closer read. The school sits in Torrance, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

The headline number: 36.9% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,238 middle schools statewide

Has stayed near the 62nd percentile since 2019.

CA Dashboard
ELAYellow(Increased)MathGreen(Increased)

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 46% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 645%42%45%42%47%
Grade 743%55%48%40%51%
Grade 849%49%49%45%43%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 648%38%42%35%43%
Grade 742%33%36%44%48%
Grade 842%40%33%32%47%

The story this school is actually telling

The school, grade by grade

ELA · CAASPP 2024–25

Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.

18%
30%
52%
Grade 6 · 48% proficient
18%
33%
49%
Grade 7 · 51% proficient
11%
32%
57%
Grade 8 · 43% proficient

The honest read: the share exceeding falls 6.2pp across grades; the floor slips 4.0pp. The state average rises 0.1pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.

The 6 things our score weighs

Exceeded standard
20.4%
State 16.8%
3.6pp above state avg
Met or exceeded
46.5%
State 39.3%
7.2pp above state avg
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
Below avg
State average
The same students 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.
Chronic absenteeism
15.8%
State 18.5%
2.8pp below state avg
Suspension rate
6.6%
State 3.7%
3.0pp above state avg
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
36.9%
State 18.0%
18.9pp above state avg

California's own answer to the same question

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 10th percentile of California middle schools in reading and the 86th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 41st. 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.

Both measures, ranked against every California school
Our growth measuresame cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 41st percentile among California middle schools.41st pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −14 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 10th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.10th pctile · −14 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +15 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 86th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.86th pctile · +15 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

— 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.

Worth a school visit

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 J. H. Hull Middle in Torrance, 40.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 55.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. J. H. Hull Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 14.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (36.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.4 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 346 students tested.

All students at this school: 46% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 46%, district —, state 39%46%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 35%, district 49%, state 32%35% · −11 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 39%, district 51%, state 32%39% · −7 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 48%, district 65%, state 44%48% · +1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 45%, district 65%, state 42%45% · −1 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 58%, district 66%, state 56%58% · +12 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 6%, district 31%, state 11%6% · −40 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 77%, district 82%, state 72%77% · +31 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 10%, district 32%, state 15%10% · −36 vs school
FilipinoFilipino: this school 72%, district 77%, state 65%72% · +26 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 68%, district 74%, state 56%68% · +22 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 38%, district 43%, state 26%38% · −9 vs school
HomelessHomeless: too few students to report‹11
Pacific IslanderPacific Islander: too few students to report‹11
Foster YouthFoster Youth: too few students to report‹11
Military-ConnectedMilitary-Connected: too few students to report‹11
this school district, same group California, same group
Subgroup growth by grade

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 8.4pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -1.8pp.

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 Only394 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 394 students.−14 pts · −14 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students363 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −16 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 363 students.−16 pts · −14 vs typical
Low-income students336 studentsLow-income students, reading: −15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 336 students.−15 pts · −12 vs typical
English Learner109 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 109 students.−14 pts · −9 vs typical
White79 studentsWhite, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 79 students.−6 pts · −6 vs typical
Math
English Only394 studentsEnglish Only, math: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 394 students.+15 pts · +18 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students364 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 364 students.+7 pts · +13 vs typical
Low-income students337 studentsLow-income students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 337 students.+7 pts · +12 vs typical
English Learner110 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 110 students.+7 pts · +10 vs typical
White79 studentsWhite, math: +22 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 79 students.+22 pts · +21 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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.

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 15.8%, district 11.1%, state 18.5%15.8% · −2.8pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 6.6%, district —, state 3.7%6.6% · +3.0pp vs state
Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–614.1%
Grades 7–816.6%

Where the path goes

The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.

K-12 Feeder Path
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Middle
J. H. Hull Middle
41/100
This school

Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.

Torrance HighScope 74direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Torrance High, which sent 60 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 20 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Torrance High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 76% of Torrance High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

60 UC ENROLLEES (FALL 2025) · 20 AP SUBJECTS TAUGHT → full record on Torrance High's page
Source: UC & College Board

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Student : teacherStudent to teacher ratio: this school 28:1, district 26:128:1
Teaching staff23 teachers
Avg. experience19.3 years
Fully credentialed88%
Salary Schedule
Teacher salary schedule$62,009 – $122,300
Principal salary$154,486 – $196,119
Superintendent salary$335,280

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $16,806, CA average $14,491$16,806 · spent at this school
Federal share$240 per student

$240 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$16,002 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction63%
Instruction support11%
Student services9%
Administration7%
Buildings & maintenance9%
Other1%

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

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$11,441 per pupil
2019$11,279 per pupil
2018$11,194 per pupil
2017$10,632 per pupil
2016$10,442 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Hispanic61.8%
District 34.7% · CA 56.1%
White13.5%
District 18.5% · CA 19.9%
Other10.6%
District 15.7% · CA 9.0%
Asian9.8%
District 27.0% · CA 10.2%
Black4.2%
District 4.1% · CA 4.8%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 50.2% (14pp below CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$93K · CA $85K
Median home value$923K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+40% · CA 35%
ZIP population41,787
Median age39 years

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

Worth Knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 45% 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is J. H. Hull Middle a good middle school?

J. H. Hull Middle has a Scope Score of 41 out of 100, placing it in the 62nd percentile of California middle schools and ranked #856 statewide. 20.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 3.6 percentage points above the California average of 16.8%. 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 J. H. Hull Middle's CAASPP test scores?

On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 46.5% of students at J. H. Hull Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 20.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 26.1% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 20.4% pushed past it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it reveals whether a school's curriculum challenges students beyond minimum proficiency or paces toward it. 1,229 student-subject combinations were assessed.

How does J. H. Hull Middle rank in California?

J. H. Hull Middle ranks #856 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 62nd 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 J. H. Hull 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 J. H. Hull 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 41st 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 J. H. Hull Middle?

15.8% of students at J. H. Hull Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.5%. The suspension rate is 6.6%. 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 J. H. Hull Middle compare to other schools in Torrance?

J. H. Hull Middle scores 41/100 (62nd 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 621 students. Use the schools in Torrance page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.

How does J. H. Hull Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?

At J. H. Hull Middle in Torrance, 40.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 55.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. J. H. Hull Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 14.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (36.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.4 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 346 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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For the data nerds

Every number on this page

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

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Exceeded standard · 42%
20.4%
↑ vs CA 16.8% · 54th pctile
Met or exceeded · 23%
46.5%
↑ vs CA 39.3% · 56th pctile
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) · 20%
Below avg
↓ vs CA average · 41th pctile
Chronic absenteeism · 5%
15.8%
↑ vs CA 18.5% · 54th pctile
▲ 0.6pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate · 5%
6.6%
↓ vs CA 3.7% · 38th pctile
▲ 1.2pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC) · 5%
36.9%
↑ vs CA 18.0% · 71th pctile
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 619418%30%25%27%47%+1
Grade 719918%33%28%22%51%+3
Grade 822111%32%27%30%43%−3
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 619422%21%30%27%43%+8
Grade 720027%21%25%28%48%+14
Grade 822127%20%25%28%47%+15

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)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide22116%29%45%10%

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 Disadvantaged34640.8%−15+3
Hispanic/Latino37836.8%−17−2
English Learners814.9%−23−5
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = the same students tracked across grades, in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
J. H. Hull Middle ←—4120.4%46.5%+0.1pp+38 pts6.6%
Madrona Middle2.1 mi5929.4%60.3%−2.2pp—0.8%
Alexander Fleming Middle1.6 mi4317.7%41.5%+8.9pp—0.2%
Stephen M. White Middle2 mi3819.2%43.8%+0.7pp—0.0%
California average—3816.8%39.3%+1.5pp—3.7%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193857#86615.3%44.9%9.6%6.0%-1.0pp
20223964#77615.8%42.9%18.0%7.3%+4.1pp
20234068#70217.6%42.1%16.7%6.3%-1.9pp
20243756#98015.8%39.6%15.2%5.5%-0.3pp
20254162#85620.4%46.5%15.8%6.6%+0.1pp
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
Group20192025Δ
Female10.3%16.2%+5.9pp
Male8.8%15.3%+6.5pp
Asian1.4%3.1%+1.7pp
Black/African American20.0%14.8%-5.2pp
White4.7%3.0%-1.7pp
Hispanic/Latino12.1%19.2%+7.1pp
Two or More Races7.5%12.5%+5.0pp
Students with Disabilities12.2%25.0%+12.8pp
English Learners7.8%29.1%+21.3pp
Homeless61.9%58.3%-3.6pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged12.6%20.5%+7.9pp
All Students9.6%15.7%+6.1pp
11California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−14589Moderate+15590Accelerated
English Only−14394not categorised+15394not categorised
Hispanic or Latino−16363Moderate+7364Accelerated
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−15336Moderate+7337Accelerated
English Learner−14109Moderate+7110Accelerated
White−679Moderate+2279Exceptional
English Learners Only−1874not categorised+675not categorised
Students with Disabilities−3164Minimal−664Moderate
Asian−2058Moderate+3158Exceptional
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)−1350Moderate+151Average
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only−1335not categorised+1135not categorised
Filipino−830Moderate+4030Exceptional
Two or More Races−1530Moderate+1730Accelerated
Black or African American−2126Minimal−126Average
Homeless Youth−3619Minimal−219Average

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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