Kingswood K-8: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Kingswood K-8 posts low test scores — and grade 5 tests above grade 3 here this year, by 9.3pp. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 31 | 7% | 19% | +9.3 | 27.9% | 3.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Kingswood K-8 scores 31 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 20th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “19% proficient” and call it done. Kingswood K-8 deserves a closer read. The school sits in Citrus Heights, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 20th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 19% meet the standard today, versus 29% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 24% | 27% | 17% | 24% | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 27% | 24% | 17% | 23% | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 42% | 28% | 42% | 30% | 29% |
| Grade 6 | 23% | 9% | 5% | 13% | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 30% | 35% | 31% | 21% | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 23% | 22% | 23% | 22% | 12% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 43% | 23% | 25% | 13% | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 16% | 11% | 7% | 18% | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 23% | 11% | 5% | 17% | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 11% | 11% | 13% | 6% | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 13% | 4% | 7% | 9% | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 11% | 20% | 3% | 5% | 6% |
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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- 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 Kingswood K-8 in Citrus Heights, 19.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Kingswood K-8 trails its district average for low-income students by 9.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (10.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (21.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 15.2 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 290 students tested.
9 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 rises by 17.8pp 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 twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (41.7% vs 23.6%). 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
$1,872 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), 13% 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 Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 48
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 31
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 47
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 50 | 4% | 10% | 16% | 70% | 14% | −29 |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 12% | 13% | 12% | 63% | 25% | −20 |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 15% | 15% | 25% | 45% | 29% | −19 |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 11% | 19% | 32% | 38% | 30% | −16 |
| Grade 7 | 55 | 2% | 18% | 31% | 49% | 20% | −28 |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 3% | 9% | 45% | 43% | 12% | −34 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 52 | 6% | 10% | 15% | 69% | 15% | −30 |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 2% | 7% | 22% | 69% | 9% | −32 |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 7% | 12% | 14% | 67% | 19% | −16 |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 3% | 8% | 31% | 58% | 11% | −24 |
| Grade 7 | 57 | 2% | 7% | 19% | 72% | 9% | −25 |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 2% | 5% | 13% | 81% | 6% | −26 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 122 | 2% | 11% | 69% | 18% |
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 | 290 | 19.7% | −9 | −19 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 172 | 21.5% | −13 | −17 |
| English Learners | 100 | 6.0% | +0 | −4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingswood K-8 ← | — | 31 | 7.4% | 18.6% | +9.3 | 3.7% |
| Earl Legette Elementary | 2.3 mi | 50 | 25.9% | 53.1% | +0.1 | 2.7% |
| Cambridge Heights Elementary | 0.9 mi | 48 | 25.4% | 58.6% | −7.6 | 0.4% |
| Trajan Elementary | 1.9 mi | 47 | 17.2% | 50.0% | −4.8 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 29 | 15 | #4664 | 6.5% | 29.1% | 19.5% | 9.3% | -0.8pp |
| 2022 | 21 | 10 | #5157 | 4.7% | 20.7% | 52.4% | 6.6% | -5.4pp |
| 2023 | 23 | 9 | #5222 | 5.6% | 18.8% | 40.4% | 9.0% | +2.6pp |
| 2024 | 29 | 17 | #4779 | 7.4% | 20.9% | 30.9% | 9.5% | +5.2pp |
| 2025 | 31 | 20 | #4596 | 7.4% | 18.6% | 27.9% | 3.7% | +9.3pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 19 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 22.4% | 30.2% | +7.8pp |
| Male | 17.2% | 27.7% | +10.5pp |
| Asian | 18.2% | 18.8% | +0.6pp |
| Black/African American | 31.5% | 43.4% | +11.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.7% | 26.4% | +12.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 35.6% | 38.1% | +2.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 23.7% | 36.2% | +12.5pp |
| English Learners | 8.1% | 21.0% | +12.9pp |
| Homeless | 29.3% | 39.5% | +10.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 19.7% | 29.3% | +9.6pp |
| All Students | 19.6% | 28.8% | +9.2pp |
| White | — | 15.4% | — |
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