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John Muir Elementary

Santa Monica, CA · Grades Pre-K-5 · 0 students · Santa Monica-Malibu Unified

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Math

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Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

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Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

0

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

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Students absent 10% or more of school days

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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%2019: 46%2022: 51%2019: 59%2022: 49%201920220%25%50%75%100%2019: 46%2022: 51%2019: 59%2022: 49%20192022
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201946%59%
202251%49%

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 2019 to 2025

Has stayed near the 63rd percentile since 2019.

A missing score is not a judgment, and it is not a claim about what the state published. It means the composite a Scope Score, band and rank are all built from isn't on file for this school this year — the honest move is to say so, and to show whatever results are on file rather than guess at a number.

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 50% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 56th percentile · Scope Score 39 of 1002022 · 63rd percentile · Scope Score 40 of 100
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022
Grade 350%48%
Grade 449%68%
Grade 568%51%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022
Grade 359%58%
Grade 437%32%
Grade 533%45%

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

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

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Fully credentialed81%
PrincipalAntonio Shelton
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$62,469 – $125,576
Principal salary$157,428 – $180,392
Superintendent salary$297,412

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

Its district spends $17,123 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $17,123, CA average $14,491$17,123 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$25,939 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 58%Instruction support 11%Student services 9%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 13%Other 1%

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

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$17,123 per pupil
2019$15,913 per pupil
2018$16,566 per pupil
2017$15,621 per pupil
2016$15,269 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Median income$121K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.93M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+70% · CA 35%
ZIP population27,298
Median age43 years

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

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

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What are the alternatives?

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.

Private options →
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John Muir ElementaryPublicNot available——School being viewed
Franklin ElementaryPublicStrong58%83%2.4 mi
Canyon Charter ElementaryCharterStrong61%86%2.5 mi
Edison ElementaryPublicStrong50%81%1.5 mi
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Worth a school visit

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Behind the evidence

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

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A closer look at the evidence

John Muir Elementary: reading the evidence

John Muir is an elementary school in Santa Monica. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

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

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SchoolScope scores and verdicts are our interpretation of public California Department of Education data — independent analysis, not an official rating. How we analyze · Request a correction

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