Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (0.3% vs 1.6%). 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 | 26 | 9% | 23% | -8.6 | 68.5% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy scores 26 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 9th 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 “23% proficient” and call it done. Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five 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 9th percentile since 2023.
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 26% | 40% | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 30% | 19% | 36% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 23% | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 26% | 17% | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 28% | 41% | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 25% | 38% | 45% |
| Grade 11 | 34% | 45% | 38% |
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 30% | 31% | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 13% | 7% | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 15% | 10% | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 12% | 16% | 41% |
| Grade 7 | 10% | 20% | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 14% | 15% | 41% |
| Grade 11 | 15% | 28% | 30% |
The 6 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 how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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 Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy in Los Angeles, 35.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 5.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (36.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (34.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 252 students tested.
8 of 15 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 1.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of TK/K students (87.2% vs 35.7%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy 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.
$1,364 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 29% 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 Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 64
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 3 | 20 | 10% | 5% | 45% | 40% | 15% | −28 |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 14% | 21% | 21% | 43% | 36% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 4% | 12% | 38% | 46% | 15% | −33 |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 14% | 21% | 14% | 50% | 36% | −11 |
| Grade 7 | 67 | 10% | 28% | 21% | 40% | 39% | −9 |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 14% | 31% | 19% | 36% | 45% | −1 |
| Grade 11 | 71 | 18% | 20% | 27% | 35% | 38% | −9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 20 | 15% | 20% | 20% | 45% | 35% | −11 |
| Grade 4 | 15 | 0% | 20% | 33% | 47% | 20% | −22 |
| Grade 5 | 23 | 9% | 9% | 26% | 57% | 17% | −18 |
| Grade 6 | 29 | 17% | 24% | 14% | 45% | 41% | +6 |
| Grade 7 | 65 | 34% | 15% | 23% | 28% | 49% | +15 |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 26% | 15% | 23% | 36% | 41% | +9 |
| Grade 11 | 63 | 8% | 22% | 29% | 41% | 30% | +7 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 170 | 7% | 22% | 49% | 21% |
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 | 252 | 35.1% | −6 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 197 | 34.2% | −7 | −5 |
| Black/African American | 36 | 27.8% | −8 | −5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy ← | — | 26 | 8.6% | 23.1% | −8.6 | 0.3% |
| Elysian Heights ES Arts Magnet | 2.4 mi | 68 | 35.2% | 61.3% | −6.0 | 0.1% |
| Dr. Sammy Lee Medical and Health Science Magnet El | 1.9 mi | 62 | 34.4% | 60.8% | −9.0 | 0.1% |
| Hoover Street Elementary | 1.2 mi | 62 | 42.7% | 68.5% | +12.7 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 26 | 16 | #4799 | 9.6% | 23.4% | 83.9% | 0.0% | -6.9pp |
| 2024 | 24 | 8 | #5287 | 9.1% | 21.4% | 73.1% | 0.3% | -19.3pp |
| 2025 | 26 | 9 | #5206 | 8.6% | 23.1% | 68.5% | 0.3% | -8.6pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 78.6% | — |
| Male | — | 84.7% | — |
| Black/African American | — | 87.0% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 81.7% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 86.1% | — |
| English Learners | — | 90.4% | — |
| Homeless | — | 88.2% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 82.6% | — |
| All Students | — | 81.4% | — |
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