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Leon H. Ollivier Middle · BakersfieldPublic

Leon H. Ollivier Middle: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.

Leon H. Ollivier posts 41% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.

7310 Monitor Street, 93307 (opens in new tab)·Greenfield Union·Bakersfield·Grades 6-8·1,152 students·94% low-income·2024–25 CAASPP·(661) 837-6120
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
This schoolCA avg
Scope3838
% Exceeded15%17%
% Met+41%39%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Average · p47Average · p50
Absence15.3%18.5%
Suspension5.4%3.7%
Scope Score
38
🌱 Building Momentum · Developing
ranked #1,015 statewide · #1 of 3 in Greenfield Union

Leon H. Ollivier Middle scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 55th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →

🌱 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.

CDE CAASPP 2025

Most rating sites would stop at “41% proficient” and call it done. Leon H. Ollivier deserves a closer read. The school sits in Bakersfield, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Leon H. Ollivier's low-income kids hit 51.5% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,238 middle schools statewide

Has stayed near the 55th percentile since 2019.

CA Dashboard
ELAGreen(Increased)MathYellow(Increased)

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 41% meet the standard today, versus 46% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 646%48%42%47%49%
Grade 765%60%59%48%54%
Grade 855%54%64%57%55%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 636%35%27%32%32%
Grade 737%32%32%23%28%
Grade 838%24%33%35%30%

The story this school is actually telling

The school, grade by grade

ELA · CAASPP 2024–25

Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.

14%
35%
51%
Grade 6 · 49% proficient
18%
36%
46%
Grade 7 · 54% proficient
19%
36%
45%
Grade 8 · 55% proficient

The honest read: the share exceeding rises 4.6pp across grades; the floor rises 5.7pp. The state average rises 0.1pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.

51.5%
Low-income · ELA · met standard

Leon H. Ollivier's most underrated number

51.5% 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.

Leon H. Ollivier low-income: 51.5%State low-income: 38.2%Leon H. Ollivier EL: 2.0%State EL: 10.4%

The 6 things our score weighs

Exceeded standard
15.1%
State 16.8%
1.8pp below state avg
Met or exceeded
41.3%
State 39.3%
2.0pp above state avg
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
Average
State average
The same students gained 44 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
Chronic absenteeism
15.3%
State 18.5%
3.2pp below state avg
Suspension rate
5.4%
State 3.7%
1.7pp above state avg
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
32.2%
State 18.0%
14.2pp above state avg

California's own answer to the same question

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 93rd percentile of California middle schools in reading and the 54th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 47th. A gap that size between reading and math in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.

Both measures, ranked against every California school
Our growth measuresame cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 47th percentile among California middle schools.47th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +18 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 93rd percentile of 7,519 reported schools.93rd pctile · +18 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +2 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 54th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.54th pctile · +2 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

— 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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.

Worth a school visit

Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.

  • Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
  • 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 Leon H. Ollivier Middle in Bakersfield, 51.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Leon H. Ollivier Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 9.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (53.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 51.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 1,083 students tested.

All students at this school: 41% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 41%, district —, state 39%41%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 40%, district 35%, state 32%40% · −1 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 42%, district 36%, state 32%42% · +0 vs school
MaleMale: this school 40%, district 34%, state 42%40% · −1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 43%, district 37%, state 44%43% · +1 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 2%, district 12%, state 11%2% · −40 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 6%, district 6%, state 15%6% · −35 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 38%, district 24%, state 26%38% · −3 vs school
HomelessHomeless: this school 29%, district 23%, state 22%29% · −12 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 44%, district 39%, state 56%44% · +2 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 32%, district 43%, state 72%32% · −9 vs school

5 of 16 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
Subgroup growth by grade

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 7.5pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +4.6pp.

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 middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students999 studentsLow-income students, reading: +18 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 999 students.+18 pts · +21 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students939 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +20 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 939 students.+20 pts · +22 vs typical
English Only529 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +19 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 529 students.+19 pts · +19 vs typical
English Learner254 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +12 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 254 students.+12 pts · +17 vs typical
Recently reclassified183 studentsRecently reclassified, reading: +17 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 183 students.+17 pts · +15 vs typical
Math
Low-income students999 studentsLow-income students, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 999 students.+2 pts · +7 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students940 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 940 students.+3 pts · +9 vs typical
English Only529 studentsEnglish Only, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 529 students.+2 pts · +5 vs typical
English Learner254 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 254 students.+2 pts · +5 vs typical
Recently reclassified183 studentsRecently reclassified, math: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 183 students.+3 pts · +4 vs typical
this school typical California middle 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.

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 15.3%, district 19.4%, state 18.5%15.3% · −3.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 5.4%, district —, state 3.7%5.4% · +1.7pp vs state
Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–613.1%
Grades 7–816.4%

Where the path goes

The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.

K-12 Feeder Path
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Middle
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High School
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Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Student : teacherStudent to teacher ratio: this school 24:1, district 23:124:1
Teaching staff54 teachers
Avg. experience14.4 years
Fully credentialed81%
First-year teachers9%
Intern / emergency permit4.1%
Salary Schedule
Teacher salary schedule$60,824 – $119,747
Principal salaryFrom $157,517
Superintendent salary$315,431

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $16,188, CA average $14,491$16,188 · spent at this school

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.

Federal share$893 per student

$893 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,744 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction60%
Instruction support9%
Student services14%
Administration6%
Buildings & maintenance10%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,863 per pupil
2019$12,059 per pupil
2018$11,854 per pupil
2017$11,008 per pupil
2016$10,968 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Hispanic87.7%
District 86.5% · CA 56.1%
Black4.6%
District 5.5% · CA 4.8%
White3.8%
District 4.6% · CA 19.9%
Asian2.3%
District 1.8% · CA 10.2%
Other1.6%
District 1.6% · CA 9.0%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 93.7% (30pp above CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$56K · CA $85K
Median home value$272K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+8% · CA 35%
ZIP population85,945
Median age28 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Worth Knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 35% 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is Leon H. Ollivier Middle a good middle school?

Leon H. Ollivier Middle has a Scope Score of 38 out of 100, placing it in the 55th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,015 statewide. 15.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is near the California average of 16.8%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 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 Leon H. Ollivier Middle's CAASPP test scores?

On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 41.3% of students at Leon H. Ollivier Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 15.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 26.2% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 15.1% pushed past it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it reveals whether a school's curriculum challenges students beyond minimum proficiency or paces toward it. 2,297 student-subject combinations were assessed.

How does Leon H. Ollivier Middle rank in California?

Leon H. Ollivier Middle ranks #1,015 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 55th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), 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.

Is Leon H. Ollivier Middle getting better or worse?

SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Leon H. Ollivier Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks average among California middle schools — roughly the 47th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the middle Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.

What is the attendance and school culture like at Leon H. Ollivier Middle?

15.3% of students at Leon H. Ollivier Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.5%. The suspension rate is 5.4%. 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 Leon H. Ollivier Middle compare to other schools in Bakersfield?

Leon H. Ollivier Middle scores 38/100 (55th percentile) among California middle 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 1,152 students. Use the schools in Bakersfield page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.

How does Leon H. Ollivier Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?

At Leon H. Ollivier Middle in Bakersfield, 51.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Leon H. Ollivier Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 9.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (53.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 51.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 1,083 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Exceeded standard · 42%
15.1%
↓ vs CA 16.8% · 48th pctile
Met or exceeded · 23%
41.3%
↑ vs CA 39.3% · 52th pctile
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) · 20%
Average
↓ vs CA average · 47th pctile
Chronic absenteeism · 5%
15.3%
↑ vs CA 18.5% · 54th pctile
▼ 0.5pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate · 5%
5.4%
↓ vs CA 3.7% · 43th pctile
▼ 0.7pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC) · 5%
32.2%
↑ vs CA 18.0% · 65th pctile
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 638114%35%26%25%49%+3
Grade 741618%36%23%23%54%+6
Grade 835219%36%24%21%55%+8
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 638016%16%32%36%32%−3
Grade 741511%17%28%43%28%−5
Grade 835313%17%23%47%30%−2

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide35310%26%56%8%

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged1,08351.5%+9+13
Hispanic/Latino1,00153.1%+10+14
English Learners982.0%−11−8
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = the same students tracked across grades, in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Leon H. Ollivier Middle ←—3815.1%41.3%+2.2pp+44 pts5.4%
McKee Middle1.1 mi3111.3%34.5%+3.6pp—0.3%
Greenfield Middle1.5 mi268.8%30.1%−1.5pp—4.5%
California average—3816.8%39.3%+1.5pp—3.7%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193754#92713.3%46.0%9.1%5.6%+5.5pp
20223863#80514.3%42.2%27.7%1.7%-2.7pp
20233968#70715.5%43.1%14.6%2.6%+14.0pp
20244163#80815.2%40.5%15.9%6.1%+6.6pp
20253855#101515.1%41.3%15.3%5.4%+2.2pp
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
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
Group20192025Δ
Female10.3%14.7%+4.4pp
Male7.9%15.7%+7.8pp
Asian12.5%12.9%+0.4pp
Black/African American13.3%29.7%+16.4pp
Hispanic/Latino8.1%14.4%+6.3pp
Two or More Races20.0%13.3%-6.7pp
Students with Disabilities8.8%18.1%+9.3pp
English Learners14.3%20.5%+6.2pp
Foster Youth8.3%——
Military-Connected7.5%19.7%+12.2pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged9.0%15.4%+6.4pp
All Students9.1%15.3%+6.2pp
Homeless—29.7%—
11California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+181,059Accelerated+21,059Average
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+18999Accelerated+2999Average
Hispanic or Latino+20939Exceptional+3940Average
English Only+19529not categorised+2529not categorised
English Learner+12254Accelerated+2254Average
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+17183not categorised+3183not categorised
Students with Disabilities+486Average+185Average
English Learners Only071not categorised+171not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)+1467Accelerated+167Average
Homeless Youth+1746Accelerated+146Average
Black or African American+945Accelerated+945Accelerated
White+236Average+436Average
Asian−421Average−321Average
Two or More Races+1113Accelerated−2013Moderate

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. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. 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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