Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and posts 53% meeting the standard, and 23.5% 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.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 23% | 53% | -7.3 | 15.6% | 3.0% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 59th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “53% proficient” and call it done. Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and deserves a closer read. It sits at the 59th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 79th to the 59th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 53% meet the standard today, versus 57% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 45% | 41% | 58% | 41% | 47% |
| Grade 4 | 55% | 56% | 37% | 50% | 51% |
| Grade 5 | 69% | 50% | 59% | 40% | 70% |
| Grade 6 | 67% | 49% | 53% | 59% | 44% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 67% | 44% | 70% | 58% | 69% |
| Grade 4 | 55% | 49% | 46% | 44% | 52% |
| Grade 5 | 52% | 38% | 45% | 26% | 32% |
| Grade 6 | 60% | 35% | 33% | 50% | 25% |
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 22.9pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and in Brea, 40.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 50.3% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and trails its district average for low-income students by 10.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (39.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 14.0 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 134 students tested.
7 of 14 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 31.7pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +16.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (29.9% vs 13.5%). 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.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
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.
$853 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), 33% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Private alternatives nearby
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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 | 55 | 25% | 22% | 27% | 25% | 47% | +4 |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 25% | 26% | 21% | 29% | 51% | +6 |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 25% | 46% | 12% | 18% | 70% | +22 |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 20% | 25% | 25% | 31% | 44% | −2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 55 | 24% | 45% | 15% | 16% | 69% | +23 |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 30% | 22% | 27% | 21% | 52% | +10 |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 12% | 19% | 32% | 37% | 32% | −4 |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 11% | 13% | 28% | 48% | 25% | −10 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 57 | 4% | 30% | 56% | 11% |
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 | 134 | 40.3% | −10 | +2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 141 | 39.0% | −12 | +0 |
| White | 36 | 66.7% | −2 | +5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel Elementary Magnet School of Innovation and ← | — | 46 | 23.5% | 53.5% | −7.3 | 3.0% |
| Beechwood Elementary | 1.4 mi | 86 | 60.3% | 81.3% | +8.9 | 1.1% |
| Laguna Road Elementary | 2.4 mi | 75 | 57.7% | 78.3% | +0.2 | 0.3% |
| Sierra Vista Elementary | 2.1 mi | 75 | 51.4% | 79.7% | +2.4 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 59 | 79 | #1178 | 30.1% | 57.0% | 8.1% | 0.9% | +4.7pp |
| 2022 | 49 | 75 | #1443 | 25.8% | 46.4% | 22.5% | 0.2% | +1.1pp |
| 2023 | 48 | 70 | #1736 | 23.5% | 52.6% | 23.0% | 1.3% | -11.8pp |
| 2024 | 39 | 44 | #3232 | 18.7% | 43.2% | 13.1% | 1.4% | -17.0pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 59 | #2366 | 23.5% | 53.5% | 15.6% | 3.0% | -7.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 8.2% | 13.9% | +5.7pp |
| Male | 7.8% | 17.0% | +9.2pp |
| Asian | 2.0% | 6.1% | +4.1pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | — | — |
| White | 0.0% | 5.9% | +5.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 10.2% | 19.9% | +9.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.3% | 27.7% | +13.4pp |
| English Learners | 11.1% | 18.8% | +7.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 11.3% | 21.5% | +10.2pp |
| All Students | 8.0% | 15.4% | +7.4pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 20.7% | — |
| Homeless | — | 37.8% | — |
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