Leonardo Da Vinci: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Leonardo Da Vinci posts 62% meeting the standard, and 32.7% 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 | 54 | 33% | 62% | -15.3 | 8.9% | 0.9% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Leonardo Da Vinci scores 54 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 75th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “62% proficient” and call it done. Leonardo Da Vinci deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 8.9% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 75th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 62% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 65% | 71% | 57% | 66% | 70% |
| Grade 4 | 63% | 69% | 70% | 63% | 66% |
| Grade 5 | 69% | 76% | 66% | 73% | 56% |
| Grade 6 | 77% | 53% | 74% | 71% | 70% |
| Grade 7 | 68% | 68% | 55% | 64% | 68% |
| Grade 8 | 62% | 48% | 61% | 44% | 54% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 63% | 62% | 68% | 63% |
| Grade 4 | 53% | 60% | 65% | 55% | 72% |
| Grade 5 | 45% | 45% | 42% | 48% | 46% |
| Grade 6 | 70% | 43% | 57% | 54% | 67% |
| Grade 7 | 45% | 45% | 21% | 44% | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 41% | 38% | 47% | 24% | 42% |
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 3.7pp across grades; the floor slips 13.3pp. 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 Leonardo Da Vinci in Sacramento, 46.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Leonardo Da Vinci outperforms its district average for low-income students by 17.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (34.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (52.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 30.7 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 161 students tested.
8 of 16 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 falls by 28.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +2.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of TK/K students (18.0% vs 3.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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
$229 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 822 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 52% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 92 | 39% | 30% | 18% | 12% | 70% | +26 |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 41% | 25% | 15% | 19% | 66% | +22 |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 35% | 21% | 19% | 25% | 56% | +8 |
| Grade 6 | 97 | 40% | 30% | 19% | 11% | 70% | +24 |
| Grade 7 | 68 | 32% | 35% | 15% | 18% | 68% | +20 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 17% | 37% | 22% | 24% | 54% | +8 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 92 | 28% | 35% | 22% | 15% | 63% | +17 |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 28% | 43% | 22% | 6% | 72% | +30 |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 24% | 22% | 23% | 31% | 46% | +11 |
| Grade 6 | 95 | 39% | 28% | 11% | 22% | 67% | +32 |
| Grade 7 | 68 | 31% | 19% | 19% | 31% | 50% | +16 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 22% | 20% | 24% | 34% | 42% | +10 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 155 | 25% | 27% | 39% | 10% |
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 | 161 | 46.6% | +17 | +8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 201 | 52.2% | +20 | +13 |
| White | 172 | 75.0% | +14 | +13 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonardo Da Vinci ← | — | 54 | 32.7% | 62.1% | −15.3 | 0.9% |
| William Land Elementary | 2.5 mi | 73 | 44.6% | 68.7% | −13.7 | 0.8% |
| Crocker/Riverside Elementary | 1.6 mi | 69 | 50.1% | 77.4% | −0.5 | 0.6% |
| David Lubin Elementary | 3.1 mi | 60 | 37.8% | 60.6% | −2.2 | 1.0% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54 | 73 | #1489 | 29.1% | 59.9% | 4.6% | 0.7% | -6.9pp |
| 2022 | 56 | 84 | #946 | 34.7% | 64.0% | 18.5% | 0.5% | -6.4pp |
| 2023 | 58 | 82 | #1010 | 35.6% | 60.3% | 11.2% | 0.6% | -5.3pp |
| 2024 | 59 | 81 | #1076 | 34.9% | 62.2% | 9.4% | 0.5% | -6.3pp |
| 2025 | 54 | 75 | #1457 | 32.7% | 62.1% | 8.9% | 0.9% | -15.3pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.2% | 7.0% | +2.8pp |
| Male | 4.9% | 9.9% | +5.0pp |
| Asian | 5.8% | 5.8% | +0.0pp |
| Black/African American | 11.5% | 19.2% | +7.7pp |
| White | 0.0% | 7.1% | +7.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.9% | 10.4% | +4.5pp |
| Two or More Races | 6.4% | 4.0% | -2.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 9.1% | 19.3% | +10.2pp |
| English Learners | 4.3% | 18.9% | +14.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 8.8% | 18.1% | +9.3pp |
| All Students | 4.5% | 8.4% | +3.9pp |
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