John B. Monlux Elementary: English learners reach fluency faster than the state rate. But this year's 5th graders test below its 3rd graders.
John B. Monlux has real strengths and one number that complicates them. Most rating sites show you one or the other. Both belong on the same page.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 56 | 32% | 59% | -27.7 | 14.9% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
John B. Monlux Elementary scores 56 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 76th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “59% proficient” and call it done. John B. Monlux deserves a closer read. The school sits in North Hollywood, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
John B. Monlux's low-income kids hit 55.5% 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 58th to the 76th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 900 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 59% of students meet the standard today, above the 45% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 42% | 47% | 49% | 59% | 73% |
| Grade 4 | 53% | 47% | 40% | 53% | 48% |
| Grade 5 | 60% | 58% | 51% | 45% | 48% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 45% | 58% | 56% | 67% | 80% |
| Grade 4 | 40% | 34% | 49% | 45% | 57% |
| Grade 5 | 29% | 39% | 40% | 44% | 50% |
The story this school is actually telling
of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
proficiency runs 77% in this year's grade 3 against 49% in its grade 5. The state average rises by +4.5pp over the same span.
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 29.8pp across grades; the floor slips 24.4pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. The school's 5th graders aren't posting a wider lead than its 3rd graders. One question worth asking on a tour: are the strongest students being pushed, or coasting? A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
John B. Monlux's most underrated number
55.5% 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 the principal what changes between grade 3 and grade 5. Ask who teaches the older grades, and what the school does when a child starts falling behind.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 John B. Monlux Elementary in North Hollywood, 55.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. John B. Monlux Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 14.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (62.9% Math proficient); White students (55.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 36.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 281 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 28.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (22.2% vs 12.8%). 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 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.
$1,994 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 33% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 96 | 49% | 24% | 17% | 10% | 73% | +30 |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 24% | 24% | 23% | 29% | 48% | +3 |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 19% | 29% | 31% | 20% | 48% | +1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 97 | 54% | 27% | 10% | 9% | 80% | +35 |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 21% | 35% | 30% | 13% | 57% | +15 |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 28% | 22% | 27% | 24% | 50% | +14 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 101 | 10% | 23% | 57% | 10% |
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 | 281 | 55.5% | +15 | +17 |
| White | 227 | 55.9% | −13 | −6 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 64 | 56.2% | +15 | +17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John B. Monlux Elementary ← | — | 56 | 32.5% | 59.4% | −27.7 | 0.6% |
| Carpenter Community Charter | 2.9 mi | 85 | 59.8% | 82.6% | −2.2 | 0.3% |
| Colfax Charter Elementary | 1.9 mi | 72 | 54.3% | 80.3% | −3.0 | 0.1% |
| ISANA Palmati Academy | 0.9 mi | 61 | 41.0% | 63.5% | −10.7 | 0.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 46 | 58 | #2303 | 19.0% | 44.8% | 21.0% | 0.4% | +0.7pp |
| 2022 | 42 | 63 | #2118 | 22.4% | 47.2% | 34.7% | 0.1% | -3.8pp |
| 2023 | 43 | 60 | #2287 | 23.1% | 47.6% | 27.9% | 0.1% | -6.9pp |
| 2024 | 50 | 69 | #1802 | 29.3% | 52.1% | 16.7% | 0.2% | -19.0pp |
| 2025 | 56 | 76 | #1365 | 32.5% | 59.4% | 14.9% | 0.6% | -27.7pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 20.1% | 14.4% | -5.7pp |
| Male | 22.0% | 14.9% | -7.1pp |
| Asian | 15.4% | 18.8% | +3.4pp |
| Black/African American | 33.3% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 17.3% | 20.6% | +3.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 20.4% | 28.8% | +8.4pp |
| English Learners | 22.5% | 13.2% | -9.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.4% | 15.1% | -5.3pp |
| All Students | 21.1% | 14.7% | -6.4pp |
| Filipino | — | 11.1% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 9.1% | — |
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