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Lake County International Charter

Middletown, CA · Grades TK-8 · 88 students · Middletown Unified

Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.

75% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 42% 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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PrincipalGwendolyn Maupin-Ahern
GradesTK-8
Enrollment88 students

Math

42%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

75%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

88

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

12%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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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: 54%2022: 73%2024: 68%2025: 42%2019: 73%2022: 36%2024: 60%2025: 75%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 54%2022: 73%2024: 68%2025: 42%2019: 73%2022: 36%2024: 60%2025: 75%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201954%73%
202273%36%
2023
202468%60%
202542%75%

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

Has stayed near the 80th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “71% proficient” and call it done. Lake County International Charter deserves a closer read. Three in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

As a charter, Lake County International Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

54 tested · 2 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Lake County International Charter scores 53 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 80th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 71% of students meet the standard today, above the 63% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 84th percentile · Scope Score 62 of 1002022 · 69th percentile · Scope Score 43 of 1002023 · 52nd percentile · Scope Score 34 of 1002024 · 83rd percentile · Scope Score 57 of 1002025 · 80th percentile · Scope Score 53 of 100
ELAYellow(Declined)MathYellow(Maintained)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 354%36%77%75%
Grade 445%67%
Grade 592%42%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 338%73%85%42%
Grade 455%100%
Grade 569%50%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

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

ELA57% met or exceeded
Exceeded 22%Met 35%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 19%
Math48% met or exceeded
Exceeded 22%Met 26%Nearly Met 31%Not Met 20%
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 school5327%71%12.3%0.6%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope5339
% Exceeded27%21%
% Met+71%43%
Growth
Absence12.3%17.9%
Suspension0.6%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 7th percentile in reading against the 60th 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 below the middle of California elementary schools in reading, and the 60th 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: −17 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 7th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.7th pctile · −17 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 60th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.60th pctile · +4 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

How every group of students does here

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 71% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 71%, district —, state 43%71%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 82%, district 33%, state 32%82% · +11 vs school

7 of 9 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.

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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 Only37 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −17 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.−17 pts · −20 vs typical
Low-income students32 studentsLow-income students, reading: −12 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 32 students.−12 pts · −12 vs typical
Math
English Only37 studentsEnglish Only, math: +4 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.+4 pts · +3 vs typical
Low-income students33 studentsLow-income students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 33 students.+7 pts · +8 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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 22 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher22 · district 21
Teaching staff4 teachers
Avg. experience5.5 years
Fully credentialed78%
First-year teachers25%
Intern / emergency permit21.8%
PrincipalGwendolyn Maupin-Ahern
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$55,752 – $95,216
Principal salary$122,416 – $134,842
Superintendent salary$186,732

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 12.3%, district 26.8%, state 17.9%12.3% · −5.6pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.6%, district —, state 1.6%0.6% · −1.0pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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

Its district spends $12,093 per student, less 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: $12,093, CA average $14,491$12,093 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$17,348 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 58%Instruction support 10%Student services 12%Administration 10%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 1%

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, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,093 per pupil
2019$11,549 per pupil
2018$11,671 per pupil
2017$10,557 per pupil
2016$11,227 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Three in four of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 88 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), 47% 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 Latino25.0% · district 31.6% · CA 56.1%
White68.2% · district 58.9% · CA 19.9%
Other6.8% · district 8.6% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch76.1% · CA 64%
Median income$79K · CA $85K
Median home value$387K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+31% · CA 35%
ZIP population3,422
Median age46 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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Family voices

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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.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Lake County International CharterCharterStrong27%71%School being viewed
California Connections Academy North BayCharterSolid18%42%0.3 mi
Minnie Cannon ElementaryPublicNeeds Support7%26%0.4 mi
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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

2 private schools within 10 miles
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Lake County International Charter a good elementary school?
Lake County International Charter has a Scope Score of 53 out of 100, placing it in the 80th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #1,167 statewide. 27.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 5.7 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 Lake County International Charter's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 70.8% of students at Lake County International Charter met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 27.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 43.8% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 27.1% 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. 48 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Lake County International Charter rank in California?
Lake County International Charter ranks #1,167 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 80th 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 Lake County International Charter?
12.3% of students at Lake County International Charter are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 0.6%, 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 Lake County International Charter compare to other schools in Middletown?
Lake County International Charter scores 53/100 (80th 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 88 students. Use the schools in Middletown page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.

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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 4 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard27.1%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded70.8%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism12.3%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.6%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

Lake County International Charter: reading the evidence

Lake County International Charter posts 71% meeting the standard, and 27.1% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.

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

Ask what the school does for a kid who's already meeting the standard with room to spare — steady proficiency across the board doesn't tell you whether the strongest kids are being pushed further.

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.

Lake County International Charter is ranked #1,167 statewide · #1 of 4 in Middletown Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard27.1%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded70.8%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism12.3%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.6%1.6%5%
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 55 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 70 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 59 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 3.4pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 58 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31233%42%8%17%75%+32
Grade 41225%42%25%8%67%+22
Grade 58
Grade 610
Grade 76
Grade 86
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3128%33%42%17%42%−4
Grade 41242%58%0%0%100%+59
Grade 58
Grade 610
Grade 75
Grade 87

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
Schoolwide1520%27%40%13%

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.

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
Lake County International Charter ←5327.1%70.8%0.6%
California Connections Academy North Bay0.3 mi4018.4%42.3%1.1%
Minnie Cannon Elementary0.4 mi267.5%25.9%−1.8pp1.3%
California average3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20196284#86346.1%63.5%10.5%0.6%+34.6pp
20224369#177722.7%54.5%28.5%1.3%
20233452#27219.1%50.0%26.2%1.0%
20245783#97435.3%63.3%15.7%0.6%-34.9pp
20255380#116727.1%70.8%12.3%0.6%
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
  • — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
  • — No subgroup comparison could be shown for this school this year — either its group sizes fall under CDE's 15-student reporting floor, or district/state comparison data wasn't available for its groups.
  • — 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−1737Moderate+437Average
English Only−1737not categorised+437not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1232Moderate+733Accelerated
White−2025Moderate+424Average
Hispanic or Latino+411Average

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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