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Julian Elementary

Julian, CA · Grades TK-5 · 189 students · Julian Union Elementary

This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.

52% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 47% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

SchoolScope archetype

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What this means for your family

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.

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Math

47%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

52%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

189

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

10%

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 →

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0%25%50%75%100%2019: 41%2022: 27%2023: 37%2024: 33%2025: 47%2019: 49%2022: 36%2023: 35%2024: 43%2025: 52%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 41%2022: 27%2023: 37%2024: 33%2025: 47%2019: 49%2022: 36%2023: 35%2024: 43%2025: 52%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201941%49%
202227%36%
202337%35%
202433%43%
202547%52%

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 43rd to the 67th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1200 elementary schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “45% proficient” and call it done. Julian deserves a closer read. More than half of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

82 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Julian Elementary scores 44 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 67th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 45% of students meet the standard today, above the 37% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 43rd percentile · Scope Score 33 of 1002022 · 37th percentile · Scope Score 27 of 1002023 · 51st percentile · Scope Score 33 of 1002024 · 48th percentile · Scope Score 36 of 1002025 · 67th percentile · Scope Score 44 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathGreen(Increased Significantly)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 359%35%47%46%44%
Grade 422%23%30%25%36%
Grade 538%37%24%39%59%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 353%35%50%50%50%
Grade 422%20%33%38%36%
Grade 529%19%24%18%45%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in four clear it by a lot.

ELA46% met or exceeded
Exceeded 27%Met 20%Nearly Met 15%Not Met 39%
Math43% met or exceeded
Exceeded 27%Met 16%Nearly Met 19%Not Met 38%
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+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school4427%45%—10.4%0.7%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope4439
% Exceeded27%21%
% Met+45%43%
Growth——
Absence10.4%17.9%
Suspension0.7%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 49th percentile in reading against the 78th in math, among elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits a little above the middle of California elementary schools in reading, and the 78th in math. We show it; we don't score it.

— 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 49th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.49th pctile · +1 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +11 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 78th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.78th pctile · +11 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 Julian Elementary in Julian, 39.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Julian Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 5.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.8% Math proficient); White students (59.3% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 53 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 45% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 45%, district —, state 43%45%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 35%, district 29%, state 32%35% · −10 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 46%, district 38%, state 44%46% · +2 vs school
MaleMale: this school 43%, district 32%, state 42%43% · −2 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 31%, district 25%, state 32%31% · −14 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 62%, district 47%, state 56%62% · +17 vs school

5 of 11 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 15.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +15.0pp.

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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 Only50 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 50 students.+1 pts · −2 vs typical
Low-income students35 studentsLow-income students, reading: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.−2 pts · −2 vs typical
Math
English Only50 studentsEnglish Only, math: +12 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 50 students.+12 pts · +11 vs typical
Low-income students35 studentsLow-income students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.+7 pts · +8 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 21 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher21 · district 22
Teaching staff10 teachers
Avg. experience13.8 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalDavid Pierce
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (20.0% vs 7.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 10.4%, district 7.7%, state 17.9%10.4% · −7.5pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.7%, district —, state 1.6%0.7% · −0.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–67.6%
TK/K20.0%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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

Its district spends $16,556 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: $16,556, CA average $14,491$16,556 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$24,020 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 62%Instruction support 13%Student services 9%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 9%

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

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$16,556 per pupil
2019$17,226 per pupil
2018$18,521 per pupil
2017$10,917 per pupil
2016$10,660 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

More than half of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 189 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

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.

Hispanic or Latino43.4% · district 36.3% · CA 56.1%
White39.7% · district 48.5% · CA 19.9%
Other16.9% · district 9.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch54.0% · CA 64%
Median income$74K · CA $85K
Median home value$591K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+34% · CA 35%
ZIP population3,218
Median age54 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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A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

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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.

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Julian ElementaryPublicSolid27%45%School being viewed
Julian CharterCharterSolid25%51%0.1 mi
Brookfield Engineering Science Technology AcademyCharterDeveloping13%26%0.1 mi
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Moving & enrollment

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School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with Julian Union Elementary.

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.

Plan your next step

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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 which schools families here actually choose next — the zoned path is only the default.
  • 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.
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Julian Elementary a good elementary school?
Julian Elementary has a Scope Score of 44 out of 100, placing it in the 67th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #1,899 statewide. 27.3% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 6.0 percentage points above 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 Julian Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 44.8% of students at Julian Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 27.3% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 17.5% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 27.3% 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. 163 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Julian Elementary rank in California?
Julian Elementary ranks #1,899 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 67th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Julian Elementary?
10.4% of students at Julian Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 0.7%, 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 Julian Elementary compare to other schools in Julian?
Julian Elementary scores 44/100 (67th 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 189 students. Use the schools in Julian page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Julian Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Julian Elementary in Julian, 39.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Julian Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 5.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.8% Math proficient); White students (59.3% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 53 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.
What middle school does Julian Elementary feed into?
By attendance boundary, Julian Elementary is zoned to Julian Junior High. Julian Junior High has a Scope Score of 26 out of 100. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education's School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary is also not a placement guarantee: magnet, charter, open-enrollment and inter-district transfer options mean students from one school often continue to several different ones. Confirm your address with the district before making an enrollment or housing decision. Data source: NCES School Attendance Boundary Survey, analyzed by SchoolScope.

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Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

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

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard27.3%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded44.8%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism10.4%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.7%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+4.7pp-2.9pp—

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

Julian Elementary: reading the evidence

Julian posts 45% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.

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

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.

Explore the underlying data →
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.

Julian Elementary is ranked #1,899 statewide · #3 of 6 in Julian Union Elementary.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard27.3%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded44.8%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism10.4%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.7%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+4.7pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 56 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 52 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 62 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 15.1pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 58 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 1.6pp lower vs 2024
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↑ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32540%4%20%36%44%+1
Grade 42825%11%11%54%36%−9
Grade 52917%41%14%28%59%+11
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32429%21%17%33%50%+5
Grade 42825%11%21%43%36%−6
Grade 52928%17%17%38%45%+10

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
Schoolwide2917%28%52%3%

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 Disadvantaged5339.6%+5+1
White2759.3%+10−3
Hispanic/Latino2638.5%+6−0
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
Julian Elementary ←—4427.3%44.8%+4.7pp—0.7%
Julian Charter0.1 mi4625.2%51.3%——0.6%
Brookfield Engineering Science Technology Academy0.1 mi3012.9%25.7%−5.6pp—0.1%
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
20193343#311316.8%37.4%14.6%0.7%-22.4pp
20222737#36118.4%28.0%31.4%0.2%-6.8pp
20233351#281915.5%34.6%18.6%1.7%-24.3pp
20243648#296416.4%36.1%25.5%2.3%-19.4pp
20254467#189927.3%44.8%10.4%0.7%+4.7pp
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
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female16.9%10.8%-6.1pp
Male13.9%7.4%-6.5pp
Hispanic/Latino9.7%12.0%+2.3pp
American Indian/Alaska Native30.0%——
Two or More Races5.6%9.1%+3.5pp
White18.9%5.3%-13.6pp
Students with Disabilities20.0%12.2%-7.8pp
English Learners8.0%——
Homeless18.2%10.8%-7.4pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged17.9%10.2%-7.7pp
All Students15.2%9.0%-6.2pp
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+153Average+1153Accelerated
English Only+150not categorised+1250not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−235Average+735Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino−122Average+322Average
White−522Average+1822Accelerated
Homeless Youth+1215Accelerated+1615Accelerated

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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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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