Lakeport Alternative (Home School): The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Lakeport Alternative (Home School) posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (1.3% vs 3.7%). 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 | 23 | 4% | 6% | — | 16.6% | 1.3% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Lakeport Alternative (Home School) scores 23 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 8th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “6% proficient” and call it done. Lakeport Alternative (Home School) deserves a closer read. The school sits in Lakeport, where three in four 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 8th percentile since 2023.
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 22% | 0% | 0% |
| Grade 11 | 53% | 15% | 43% |
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 8% | 7% | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 9% | 0% | 0% |
| Grade 11 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
The 4 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 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 Lakeport Alternative (Home School) in Lakeport, 22.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 17.3% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Lakeport Alternative (Home School) outperforms its district average for low-income students by 4.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (0.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 27 students tested.
10 of 13 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (15.4% vs 5.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Lakeport Alternative (Home School) serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$246 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
At 101 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 18% 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 High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 39
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 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 8% | 8% | 8% | 75% | 17% | −31 |
| Grade 8 | 14 | 0% | 0% | 43% | 57% | 0% | −46 |
| Grade 11 | 21 | 19% | 24% | 33% | 24% | 43% | −4 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 8% | 0% | 0% | 92% | 8% | −26 |
| Grade 8 | 14 | 0% | 0% | 7% | 93% | 0% | −32 |
| Grade 11 | 21 | 0% | 5% | 10% | 86% | 5% | −19 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 38 | 3% | 16% | 66% | 16% |
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 | 27 | 22.2% | +5 | −16 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeport Alternative (Home School) ← | — | 23 | 4.2% | 6.3% | — | 1.3% |
| Terrace Middle | 0.1 mi | 18 | 2.8% | 15.9% | +2.1 | 13.5% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24 | 8 | #1998 | 1.1% | 9.5% | 12.1% | 0.4% | — |
| 2024 | 17 | 6 | #2081 | 0.0% | 1.8% | 8.7% | 1.2% | — |
| 2025 | 23 | 8 | #2051 | 4.2% | 6.3% | 16.6% | 1.3% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 16 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 40.0% | 18.7% | -21.3pp |
| Male | 36.8% | 11.5% | -25.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 50.0% | 17.1% | -32.9pp |
| All Students | 38.6% | 15.4% | -23.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 12.8% | — |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | — | 23.5% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 11.8% | — |
| Homeless | — | 38.5% | — |
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