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Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy

Lake Elsinore, CA · Grades TK-8 · 440 students · Riverside County Office of Education

No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.

41% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 20% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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What this means for your family

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Math

20%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

41%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

440

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

11%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

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%2019: 22%2022: 14%2023: 24%2024: 30%2025: 20%2019: 30%2022: 30%2023: 43%2024: 32%2025: 41%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 22%2022: 14%2023: 24%2024: 30%2025: 20%2019: 30%2022: 30%2023: 43%2024: 32%2025: 41%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201922%30%
202214%30%
202324%43%
202430%32%
202520%41%

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

Climbed from the 15th to the 41st percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1300 elementary schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy deserves a closer read. Three in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

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

250 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 44 tracked

Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy scores 32 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 41st percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 29% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 15th percentile · Scope Score 22 of 1002022 · 20th percentile · Scope Score 21 of 1002023 · 34th percentile · Scope Score 26 of 1002024 · 36th percentile · Scope Score 32 of 1002025 · 41st percentile · Scope Score 32 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 333%27%45%33%40%
Grade 441%13%11%36%46%
Grade 527%33%40%31%41%
Grade 6—24%22%20%33%
Grade 7—44%29%17%47%
Grade 8—43%39%14%45%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 327%23%35%47%29%
Grade 429%13%13%27%42%
Grade 518%6%12%14%11%
Grade 6—7%10%2%17%
Grade 7—15%7%12%15%
Grade 8—24%10%7%20%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in three of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.

ELA42% met or exceeded
Exceeded 14%Met 28%Nearly Met 30%Not Met 28%
Math23% met or exceeded
Exceeded 9%Met 14%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 50%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)AbsenceSuspension
This school3215%35%Below avg · p4110.6%0.2%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%Average · p5017.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3239
% Exceeded15%21%
% Met+35%43%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Below avg · p41Average · p50
Absence10.6%17.9%
Suspension0.2%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 99th percentile in reading against the 65th in math, among elementary schools.

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 99th percentile of California elementary schools in reading and the 65th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 41st. A gap that size between reading and math 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.

— 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.

The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 3
28%
exceeded standard · 45% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 5
16%
exceeded standard · 41% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G3→G5SchoolScope growth measure: 41st percentile among California elementary schools.41st pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +27 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 99th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.99th pctile · +27 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +6 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 65th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.65th pctile · +6 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 about even with the same group statewide.

At Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy in Lake Elsinore, 36.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 14.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 21.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 5.5 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 162 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 32% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 32%, district —, state 43%32%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 31%, district 8%, state 32%31% · −2 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 28%, district 9%, state 32%28% · −4 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 31%, district 13%, state 44%31% · −1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 34%, district 7%, state 42%34% · +2 vs school

10 of 15 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 1.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
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
English Only130 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +24 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 130 students.+24 pts · +21 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students126 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +26 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 126 students.+26 pts · +25 vs typical
Low-income students123 studentsLow-income students, reading: +22 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 123 students.+22 pts · +22 vs typical
English Learner36 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 36 students.+21 pts · +23 vs typical
Students with disabilities34 studentsStudents with disabilities, reading: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −8 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 34 students.+15 pts · +23 vs typical
Math
English Only131 studentsEnglish Only, math: 0 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 131 students.0 pts · −1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students126 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 126 students.+6 pts · +7 vs typical
Low-income students124 studentsLow-income students, math: +4 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 124 students.+4 pts · +5 vs typical
English Learner36 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +14 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 36 students.+14 pts · +12 vs typical
Students with disabilities34 studentsStudents with disabilities, math: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 34 students.−8 pts · −3 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 40 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher40 · district 25
Teaching staff22 teachers
Avg. experience4.0 years
Fully credentialed64%
First-year teachers18%
Intern / emergency permit10.5%
PrincipalTanya Taylor
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Teacher salary schedule$47,764 – $163,148
Principal salary$184,435 – $184,435
Superintendent salary$362,520

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 10.6%, district 18.4%, state 17.9%10.6% · −7.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.2%, district —, state 1.6%0.2% · −1.5pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2016–17

Its district spends $26,905 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $26,905, CA average $14,491$26,905 · district average
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 26%Instruction support 29%Student services 14%Administration 25%Buildings & maintenance 5%

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, 2016–2017 — the newest published
2017$26,905 per pupil
2016$25,759 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Three in five 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), 22% 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 Latino67.7% · district 60.1% · CA 56.1%
White11.4% · district 24.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian0.2% · district 1.1% · CA 10.2%
Black14.8% · district 7.0% · CA 4.8%
Other5.9% · district 7.6% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch65.2% · CA 64%
Median income$87K · CA $85K
Median home value$502K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+17% · CA 35%
ZIP population61,768
Median age33 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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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.

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SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Julia Lee Performing Arts AcademyCharterDeveloping15%35%School being viewed
William Collier ElementaryPublicDeveloping11%35%0.6 mi
Wildomar ElementaryPublicNeeds Support9%28%2.4 mi
Lakeland VillagePublicNeeds Support9%22%1.0 mi
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy a good elementary school?
Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy has a Scope Score of 32 out of 100, placing it in the 41st percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #3,386 statewide. 15.0% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 6.4 percentage points below 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 Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 34.9% of students at Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 15.0% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 19.9% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 15.0% 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. 267 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy rank in California?
Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy ranks #3,386 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 41st percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5), 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 Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy that cohort is 2023 G3 → 2025 G5, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks below avg among California elementary 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 elementary 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 Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy?
10.6% of students at Julia Lee Performing Arts 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 0.2%, 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 Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy compare to other schools in Lake Elsinore?
Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy scores 32/100 (41st 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 440 students. Use the schools in Lake Elsinore page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy in Lake Elsinore, 36.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 14.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 21.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 5.5 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 162 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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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

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

The 5 things our score weighs

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 70 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard15.0%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded34.9%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Below avgaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism10.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.2%1.6%5%

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

Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy: reading the evidence

Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy posts 35% meeting the standard and 15.0% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

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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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.

Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy is ranked #3,386 statewide · #5 of 6 in Riverside County Office of Education.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard15.0%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded34.9%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Below avgaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism10.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.2%1.6%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 44 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 44 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)
↓ vs CA average · 41st pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 62 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 8.9pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 62 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.2pp lower vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 34219%21%31%29%40%−3
Grade 44821%25%21%33%46%+1
Grade 54416%25%36%23%41%−7
Grade 64210%24%40%26%33%−13
Grade 7346%41%21%32%47%−1
Grade 84013%33%30%25%45%−1
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 34117%12%37%34%29%−16
Grade 44813%29%33%25%42%+0
Grade 5445%7%25%64%11%−24
Grade 6425%12%21%62%17%−18
Grade 7346%9%21%65%15%−19
Grade 84110%10%24%56%20%−13

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
Schoolwide866%16%63%15%

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 Disadvantaged16236.4%+22−2
Hispanic/Latino17440.8%+29+2
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
Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy ←—3215.0%34.9%−8.7pp+70 pts0.2%
William Collier Elementary0.6 mi3110.7%35.3%−10.5pp—0.9%
Wildomar Elementary2.4 mi259.1%27.7%−8.3pp—1.1%
Lakeland Village1 mi108.8%21.9%−9.8pp—7.2%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20192215#46676.5%29.3%24.0%0.4%-7.3pp
20222120#45415.4%19.3%29.7%1.0%-5.2pp
20232634#37369.1%25.9%21.0%0.5%-14.0pp
20243236#36498.9%31.2%19.5%0.3%-17.6pp
20253241#338615.0%34.9%10.6%0.2%-8.7pp
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
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+27182Exceptional+6183Accelerated
English Only+24130not categorised0131not categorised
Hispanic or Latino+26126Exceptional+6126Accelerated
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+22123Exceptional+4124Average
English Learner+2136Exceptional+1436Accelerated
Students with Disabilities+1534Accelerated−834Moderate
Black or African American+1531Accelerated031Average
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+2222not categorised+1722not categorised
White+514Accelerated+815Accelerated
English Learners Only+1414not categorised+314not 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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