Lashon Academy: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Lashon Academy pairs 51% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Lashon Academy scores 60 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 82nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “51% proficient” and call it done. Lashon Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Van Nuys, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +5.1pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
As a charter, Lashon Academy enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 falls 3.0pp across grades; the floor rises 5.5pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Lashon Academy's most underrated number
56.3% 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 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 61
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 9.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 63 | 35% | 19% | 17% | 29% | 54% | +11 |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 30% | 19% | 15% | 36% | 49% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 32% | 28% | 20% | 20% | 59% | +12 |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 19% | 38% | 26% | 17% | 57% | +10 |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 18% | 49% | 24% | 9% | 67% | +19 |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 14% | 49% | 31% | 6% | 63% | +17 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63 | 21% | 25% | 29% | 25% | 46% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 17% | 29% | 30% | 24% | 45% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 29% | 22% | 25% | 25% | 51% | +15 |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 22% | 9% | 38% | 31% | 31% | −4 |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 20% | 13% | 40% | 27% | 33% | −1 |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 22% | 14% | 37% | 27% | 37% | +4 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 118 | 13% | 27% | 53% | 7% |
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 | 311 | 56.3% | +18 | +18 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 201 | 49.8% | −1 | +11 |
| White | 124 | 65.3% | −24 | +4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lashon Academy ← | — | 60 | 27.2% | 50.8% | +5.1 | 0.1% |
| Kester Avenue Elementary | 2.7 mi | 73 | 53.8% | 75.4% | +2.0 | 0.3% |
| Vena Avenue Elementary | 3.2 mi | 57 | 32.0% | 57.2% | −0.3 | 0.1% |
| Panorama City Elementary | 1.4 mi | 54 | 30.3% | 52.6% | −3.3 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.