Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer posts 47% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 51 | 22% | 47% | -1.2 | 14.4% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 74th percentile of 2,238 California middle 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 “47% proficient” and call it done. Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer deserves a closer read. It sits at the 74th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer's low-income kids hit 50.2% 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
Has stayed near the 74th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 47% of students meet the standard today, above the 43% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 41% | 31% | 46% | 48% | 57% |
| Grade 7 | 49% | 47% | 35% | 55% | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 52% | 48% | 51% | 44% | 54% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 31% | 25% | 29% | 33% | 40% |
| Grade 7 | 41% | 29% | 27% | 38% | 42% |
| Grade 8 | 42% | 30% | 38% | 37% | 40% |
The story this school is actually telling
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 holds steady across grades; the floor slips 3.0pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer's most underrated number
50.2% 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 how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- 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 Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer in Whittier, 50.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 43.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (53.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 46.1 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 655 students tested.
8 of 16 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 1.1pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (16.2% vs 10.7%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,944 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 29% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 44
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 60
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 53
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 304 | 21% | 36% | 23% | 20% | 57% | +10 |
| Grade 7 | 267 | 23% | 28% | 26% | 23% | 51% | +3 |
| Grade 8 | 282 | 20% | 34% | 27% | 19% | 54% | +8 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 306 | 18% | 22% | 27% | 33% | 40% | +5 |
| Grade 7 | 269 | 24% | 18% | 23% | 35% | 42% | +8 |
| Grade 8 | 282 | 26% | 14% | 29% | 31% | 40% | +8 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 282 | 6% | 23% | 62% | 9% |
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 | 655 | 50.2% | +7 | +12 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 793 | 53.8% | +7 | +15 |
| Students with Disabilities | 126 | 14.3% | −4 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katherine Edwards Middle School STEAM & Dual Immer ← | — | 51 | 22.0% | 47.3% | −1.2 | 0.6% |
| Los Nietos Middle | 1.4 mi | 51 | 23.0% | 50.8% | — | 3.1% |
| STEAM Academy @ Burke | 2 mi | 47 | 16.9% | 40.7% | −1.9 | 0.8% |
| La Merced Intermediate | 3.1 mi | 35 | 8.7% | 26.8% | +3.3 | 5.0% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 46 | 66 | #684 | 18.2% | 42.8% | 8.4% | 3.4% | +10.8pp |
| 2022 | 43 | 65 | #762 | 12.9% | 35.2% | 30.4% | 0.1% | +10.7pp |
| 2023 | 46 | 62 | #826 | 16.1% | 37.8% | 24.0% | 0.6% | +7.0pp |
| 2024 | 50 | 76 | #533 | 19.4% | 42.4% | 18.4% | 1.1% | -0.3pp |
| 2025 | 51 | 74 | #589 | 22.0% | 47.3% | 14.4% | 0.6% | -1.2pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 7.5% | 11.6% | +4.1pp |
| Male | 9.2% | 16.9% | +7.7pp |
| Filipino | 11.1% | 5.0% | -6.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.3% | 14.1% | +6.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.3% | 19.3% | +5.0pp |
| English Learners | 8.4% | 17.1% | +8.7pp |
| Foster Youth | 27.3% | — | — |
| Homeless | 10.4% | 50.0% | +39.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 8.6% | 16.8% | +8.2pp |
| All Students | 8.4% | 14.3% | +5.9pp |
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