Leona Valley Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Leona Valley posts 54% meeting the standard, and 20.7% 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 | 41 | 21% | 54% | — | 23.3% | 1.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 39 | 21% | 43% | — | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Leona Valley Elementary scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 62nd 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 “54% proficient” and call it done. Leona Valley deserves a closer read. The school sits in Leona Valley, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 44th to the 62nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 900 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 54% of students meet the standard today, above the 47% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | 37% | 32% | 57% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 40% | 39% | 62% | — | 73% |
| Grade 5 | 53% | 30% | 36% | 33% | — |
| Grade 6 | — | 24% | 24% | — | — |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | 41% | 8% | 43% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 53% | 23% | 43% | — | 55% |
| Grade 5 | 41% | 12% | 24% | 33% | — |
| Grade 6 | — | 9% | 15% | — | — |
The 4 things our score weighs
California's own answer to the same question
California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California elementary schools in reading, and the 76th in math. We show it; we don't score it.
— 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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.
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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
10 of 12 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
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (41.7% vs 27.3%). 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.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$113 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 79 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 16 | 25% | 19% | 38% | 19% | 44% | +1 |
| Grade 4 | 11 | 27% | 45% | 9% | 18% | 73% | +28 |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 16 | 13% | 31% | 38% | 19% | 44% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 11 | 18% | 36% | 27% | 18% | 55% | +13 |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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.
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leona Valley Elementary ← | — | 41 | 20.7% | 53.7% | — | — | 1.4% |
| California average | — | 39 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9pp | — | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 33 | 44 | #3094 | 12.2% | 46.9% | 7.8% | 2.6% | — |
| 2022 | 30 | 47 | #3048 | 11.5% | 30.2% | 19.2% | 0.3% | -18.6pp |
| 2023 | 30 | 44 | #3179 | 11.6% | 34.1% | 20.2% | 1.7% | +10.0pp |
| 2024 | 33 | 41 | #3392 | 13.1% | 41.7% | 23.7% | 3.3% | -16.7pp |
| 2025 | 41 | 62 | #2166 | 20.7% | 53.7% | 23.3% | 1.4% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Subgroup results are suppressed for small student counts (fewer than 15 tested), following CDE privacy rules.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 8.1% | 30.6% | +22.5pp |
| Male | 5.1% | 22.7% | +17.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 0.0% | 31.0% | +31.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 0.0% | 26.7% | +26.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 3.6% | 28.9% | +25.3pp |
| All Students | 6.3% | 26.3% | +20.0pp |
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | +29 | 27 | Exceptional | +10 | 27 | Accelerated |
| English Only | +27 | 23 | not categorised | +9 | 23 | not categorised |
| Hispanic or Latino | +38 | 14 | Exceptional | +9 | 14 | Accelerated |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | +33 | 14 | Exceptional | +1 | 14 | Average |
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. 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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