Public school · Knights Ferry Elementary · Knights Ferry, California

Knights Ferry Elementary — Rating & test scores

Knights Ferry · TK–8 · 106 students (2024–25)

12726 Dent Street, 95361knightsferryesd.org ↗(209) 881-3382
87thpercentileStrong

The dots are California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools, placed by Scope Score on spring 2026 tests. How it’s built →

Scope Score
62

Weighted composite · 2025–26
A weighted mix of four of the six elementary school measures.

See this school’s score factors ↓
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100

Well above California in English and math: 77% and 68% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 3 and 4, spring 2026, against 45% and 45%.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3 and 4: 31
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3 and 4 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 798,645 in English and 800,621 in math tested).

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”).

For grades 6–8, the standing among California middle schools is in Academic achievement ↓

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In grades 3 and 4, spring 2026, 42% of students tested in English (reading and writing) and 35% in math scored Advanced, against 24% and 21% across California. Advanced is the top of the state’s four levels.

Sources
The sentence above
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026. All students tested in grades 3 and 4: 31. California: CDE’s grade 3 and 4 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 798,645 in English and 800,621 in math tested).

Common questions

How do I get in?

Knights Ferry Elementary runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Knights Ferry Elementary which school serves your address. Evidence ↓

Is Knights Ferry Elementary a good school?

Knights Ferry Elementary scores higher than 87 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools: 87th percentile, Strong, spring 2026.

  • Grades 6–8: higher than 88 in 100 California middle schools we score (88th percentile, Strong, spring 2026)

Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 5 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 17 in 100 at the average California elementary school. 2.9% of students (4 of 138) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. Evidence ↓

More questions (2)

Did students here score above what the state expected?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 6 scored +13 points against the state’s expected score in English, which the state calls Accelerated. In math, they scored +6 points, which it calls Accelerated.

  • Included in this measure: 37 students

Evidence ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Next steps, ready to copy. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Well above California in both subjects.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2026

In grades 3 and 4, spring 2026, 77% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 68% in math, against 45% and 45% across California.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3 and 4: 31
Comparison
California: CDE’s grades 3 and 4 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 798,645 in English, 800,621 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.
AdvancedProficientBelow the standard

English

Grades 3 and 4 · spring 2026 · 31 tested

Advanced
42%
Proficient
35%
Below the standard
23%
This school77%
California45%

77% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3 and 4.

Math

Grades 3 and 4 · spring 2026 · 31 tested

Advanced
35%
Proficient
33%
Below the standard
32%
This school68%
California45%

68% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3 and 4.

Results for each grade, spring 2026English and math · grades 3–8 · every level, with tested counts

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced80%75%suppressed
Advanced67%19%suppressed
Proficient13%56%suppressed
Developing level13%0%suppressed
Minimal7%25%suppressed
Tested15166
California44%46%49%
Difference+36+29—
English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced62%suppressedsuppressed
Advanced38%suppressedsuppressed
Proficient24%suppressedsuppressed
Developing level23%suppressedsuppressed
Minimal15%suppressedsuppressed
Tested1378
California48%51%49%
Difference+14——

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced73%62%suppressed
Advanced47%25%suppressed
Proficient26%37%suppressed
Developing level27%32%suppressed
Minimal0%6%suppressed
Tested15166
California47%42%37%
Difference+26+20—
Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced54%suppressedsuppressed
Advanced46%suppressedsuppressed
Proficient8%suppressedsuppressed
Developing level31%suppressedsuppressed
Minimal15%suppressedsuppressed
Tested1378
California37%38%36%
Difference+17——

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →

School pattern · grades 3 and 4 · spring 2026 · What patterns mean

Broad baseMost students here scored Proficient or Advanced, the state’s top two levels. The English and math cards above give each figure.

How does grade 6 do?

In grade 6, spring 2026, 62% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 54% in math, against 48% and 37% across California. Fewer than 30 students tested, so one year can swing a lot; ask how results looked in other years. The middle grades are placed separately: 88th percentile (Strong) among California’s middle schools.

English

Grade 6 · spring 2026 · 13 tested

Advanced
38%
Proficient
24%
Below the standard
38%
This school62%
California48%

62% Proficient or Advanced in grade 6.

Math

Grade 6 · spring 2026 · 13 tested

Advanced
46%
Proficient
8%
Below the standard
46%
This school54%
California37%

54% Proficient or Advanced in grade 6.

Did students here score above what the state expected?

Yes, in both subjects. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 6 scored +13 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Accelerated. In math, they scored +6 points, which it calls Accelerated.

Source
Source
CDE growth model, 2025
Students
students with scores in both years in grades 4 and 6: 37
Comparison
Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Grades 4 and 6 · 2025 · 37 students with scores in both years

Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.

+13 pts

English

The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

+6 pts

Math

The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

Ask: How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?

All four levelsThe state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal, with tested counts
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3 and 4 · This school42%35%7%16%31
English, grades 3 and 4 · California24%21%21%34%798,645
Math, grades 3 and 4 · This school35%33%29%3%31
Math, grades 3 and 4 · California21%24%25%30%800,621
English, grade 6 · This school38%24%23%15%13
English, grade 6 · California20%28%24%28%415,439
Math, grade 6 · This school46%8%31%15%13
Math, grade 6 · California21%16%25%38%415,904

Below the standard combines the state’s Developing and Minimal levels, its two lowest. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2026. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

English and math results for the tested grades. These do not measure the experience in kindergarten or the early grades.

Each grade’s results: English ↑ · Math ↑

Results since 20176 tested years shown

Chart and table: 2017–2026.

English top two levels, grades 3 and 4
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202677%45%
Math top two levels, grades 3 and 4
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202668%45%

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional.

In grades 3 and 4, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 30% in 2017 to 77% in 2026. In math, it went from 32% in 2018 to 68% in 2026. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · top two levels · grades 3 and 4
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201730%
23 tested		44%
910,288 tested
201827%
22 tested		48%
887,698 tested
201965%
34 tested		49%
877,983 tested
202250%
38 tested		43%
833,089 tested
202355%
31 tested		43%
826,129 tested
202677%
31 tested		45%
798,645 tested
Math · top two levels · grades 3 and 4
YearThis schoolCalifornia
2017——
201832%
22 tested		46%
891,560 tested
201968%
34 tested		48%
882,280 tested
202259%
37 tested		41%
836,897 tested
202371%
31 tested		43%
832,264 tested
202668%
31 tested		45%
800,621 tested
How the state’s growth measure worksPoints above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 13 points above that expected score, and in math 6 points above it.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Life at school

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

5 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26.

State attendance and suspension records, 2025–26

That means they missed 10% or more of school days. At the average California elementary school, 17 in 100 were. 2.9% of students were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. 22 in 100 students in grades 7–8 were chronically absent.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism and suspension files, 2025–26
Students
chronic absence: 7 of 132 students counted for it; suspension: 4 of 138 students enrolled during the year
Comparison
Each comparison is the rate at the average school (our average of school rates), not a pooled rate.

Chronically absent, 2025–26

5 in 100This school
17 in 100At the average California elementary school

7 of 132 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

No district average: Knights Ferry Elementary is the only regular elementary school we rank in the Knights Ferry Elementary district with an attendance record.

Suspensions, 2025–26

2.9%

of students were suspended at least once (4 of 138). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Ask: When a student is suspended, what happens before and after, and who talks with the family?

Chronic absence by grade2025–26 · per 100 students, with counts
  • Grades TK–3: not in the records we hold
  • Grades 4–6: 3 in 100, 1 of 36
  • Grades 7–8: 22 in 100, 4 of 18
Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at Knights Ferry Elementary

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

Questions for your visit ↓

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Teach here? Tell us Knights Ferry Elementary’s email domain so staff can answer our workplace questions.

Every learner

Who goes here?

White students are the largest group here: 71%.

Students, families and teachers

Who are the students?

2025–26 · students counted
1. White: 71%2. Hispanic or Latino: 17%3. Not reported: 8%Unallocated share: 4%. 100% minus available shares; not a student group.Reported shares2025–26
  1. White71%
  2. Hispanic or Latino17%
  3. Not reported8%
  4. Asian—
  5. Black or African American—
  6. Filipino—
  7. Two or more races—
  8. American Indian or Alaska Native—
  9. Pacific Islander—
  10. Unallocated share4%
A dash means the share isn’t available; it isn’t zero. The unallocated share is what’s left after the shares we have; it isn’t a student group. “Not reported” is different: it is a category in the state’s own count of students. Source and comparisons: the full student mix below.

Who are the families and teachers?

15%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 16 of 106. California: 63%.

7teachers, 2024–25

9 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

14%in their first year, 2024–25

100%of teaching positions with proper credential and placement, 2021–22

Ask: Which student groups does the school track most closely, and what does it do when one falls behind?

Full student mix, comparisons and sources, 2025–26
Students, 2025–26Here
White71%
Hispanic or Latino17%
Not reported8%
Asian—
Black or African American—
Filipino—
Two or more races—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—

Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.

How the credential rate is counted

CDE SARC report 2024–25, measured 2021–22: 100% of teaching positions, 7 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 7 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.

Next steps

How do I get in?

Knights Ferry Elementary runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Knights Ferry Elementary which school serves your address.

School website: knightsferryesd.org ↗Office: (209) 881-3382Administrator: Amiee Ryan

Location and visiting

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12726 Dent Street, Knights Ferry 95361

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm which school serves your address with Knights Ferry Elementary.

Questions for your visit

  1. How many K–2 students did screening find at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help?
  2. How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?
  3. When a student is suspended, what happens before and after, and who talks with the family?
  4. Which student groups does the school track most closely, and what does it do when one falls behind?
  5. When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?
  6. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

Office (209) 881-338212726 Dent Street, directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #698 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math39%6642%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math73%7223%
Chronically absent5 in 100635%
Suspension rate2.9% (4 of 138)435%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. The weights above add to 75%: the remaining 25%, for measures with no value here, is shared out among the measures above.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–266287#698California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–1912 in 1002.5% (4 of 161)−46
2021–22not on filenot on file−24
2022–23not on filenot on file−31
2023–2413 in 1004.1% (5 of 122)—
2024–259 in 1000 of 110−42
2025–265 in 1002.9% (4 of 138)—

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English6538%69%
2026 · Math6537%62%
2025 · English5338%66%
2025 · Math5330%58%
2024 · English6128%49%
2024 · Math6116%38%
2023 · English7621%51%
2023 · Math7613%49%
2022 · English7418%54%
2022 · Math8612%33%
2019 · English8818%51%
2019 · Math8922%52%
2018 · English7011%43%
2018 · Math7118%46%
2017 · English7013%47%
2017 · Math6730%57%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English1292%
2025 · Grade 4 · English5—
2025 · Grade 5 · English1560%
2025 · Grade 6 · English10—
2025 · Grade 7 · English7—
2025 · Grade 8 · English4—
2025 · Grade 3 · Math12100%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math5—
2025 · Grade 5 · Math1547%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math10—
2025 · Grade 7 · Math7—
2025 · Grade 8 · Math4—
2024 · Grade 3 · English5—
2024 · Grade 4 · English1560%
2024 · Grade 5 · English1346%
2024 · Grade 6 · English1145%
2024 · Grade 7 · English9—
2024 · Grade 8 · English8—
2024 · Grade 3 · Math5—
2024 · Grade 4 · Math1547%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math1338%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math1127%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math9—
2024 · Grade 8 · Math8—
2023 · Grade 3 · English1656%
2023 · Grade 4 · English1553%
2023 · Grade 5 · English1638%
2023 · Grade 6 · English1323%
2023 · Grade 7 · English1173%
2023 · Grade 8 · English5—
2023 · Grade 3 · Math1675%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math1567%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math1631%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math130%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math1173%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math5—
2022 · Grade 3 · English2152%
2022 · Grade 4 · English1747%
2022 · Grade 5 · English1656%
2022 · Grade 6 · English2060%
2022 · Grade 7 · English0—
2022 · Grade 8 · English0—
2022 · Grade 3 · Math2065%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math1753%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math1612%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math195%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math8—
2022 · Grade 8 · Math6—
2019 · Grade 3 · English2277%
2019 · Grade 4 · English1242%
2019 · Grade 5 · English1225%
2019 · Grade 6 · English1443%
2019 · Grade 7 · English1443%
2019 · Grade 8 · English1457%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math2273%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math1258%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math1233%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math1421%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math1464%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math1547%
2018 · Grade 3 · English1136%
2018 · Grade 4 · English1118%
2018 · Grade 5 · English1225%
2018 · Grade 6 · English——
2018 · Grade 7 · English1464%
2018 · Grade 8 · English1292%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math1127%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math1136%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math1242%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math1127%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math1464%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math1275%
2017 · Grade 3 · English1127%
2017 · Grade 4 · English1233%
2017 · Grade 5 · English1258%
2017 · Grade 6 · English——
2017 · Grade 7 · English1479%
2017 · Grade 8 · English1145%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math——
2017 · Grade 4 · Math1242%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math1258%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math——
2017 · Grade 7 · Math1479%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math1136%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide147%21%57%14%

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.

Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students+1337Accelerated+637Accelerated
English-only students+1832not categorized+832not categorized
White+2421Exceptional+321Average

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 6. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure
California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English+13 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 6

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 6

37 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +13 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math+6 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 6

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 6

37 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, math: +6 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 6, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 9 in 100 → 2025–26 · 5 in 100 · −4 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 0 of 110 → 2025–26 · 2.9% (4 of 138) · +2.9 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female12 in 1007 in 100−5 in 100
Male13 in 1003 in 100−10 in 100
Hispanic or Latino12 in 1004 in 100−8 in 100
White12 in 1004 in 100−8 in 100
Students with disabilities9 in 1004 in 100−5 in 100
English learners0 in 100——
Low-income28 in 1008 in 100−20 in 100
All students12 in 1005 in 100−7 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$10,757 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 144 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

Central federal expenditures attributed here$967 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 106

District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,382 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 60%Instruction support 16%Student services 4%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 11%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$1,250,84660.04%60%
Instruction support$321,26515.42%16%
Student services$88,6204.25%4%
Administration$184,5378.86%9%
Buildings & maintenance$237,23111.39%11%
Total$2,083,208100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $2,083,208 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2018–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$10,757 per pupil
2020$8,778 per pupil
2019$9,516 per pupil
2018$8,458 per pupil
Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

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Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 95361 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 95361 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$92,963
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25%
ZIP-area population34,810
Median age39.1 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 95361 →

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Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Scope Score from 2025–26 results, compared across 5,726 elementary schools · attendance and suspensions by student group from 2018–19 and 2025–26 · district finance for the year each row names · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · Data updated October 15, 2026

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