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Liberty Elementary

Petaluma, CA · Grades 1-6 · 162 students · Liberty Elementary

High scores, real growth, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.

76% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 80% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

80%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

76%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

162

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

6%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

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0%25%50%75%100%2019: 78%2022: 75%2023: 68%2024: 85%2025: 80%2019: 80%2022: 73%2023: 75%2024: 78%2025: 76%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 78%2022: 75%2023: 68%2024: 85%2025: 80%2019: 80%2022: 73%2023: 75%2024: 78%2025: 76%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201978%80%
202275%73%
202368%75%
202485%78%
202580%76%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Has held the 91st-percentile line every tested year since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “78% proficient” and call it done. Liberty deserves a closer read. It sits at the 91st percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

The headline number: 78.1% of students met or exceeded the standard, versus 42.7% statewide.

As a charter, Liberty enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

107 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Liberty Elementary scores 66 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 91st percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 78% meet the standard today, versus 82% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 92nd percentile · Scope Score 72 of 1002022 · 89th percentile · Scope Score 67 of 1002023 · 89th percentile · Scope Score 66 of 1002024 · 94th percentile · Scope Score 70 of 1002025 · 91st percentile · Scope Score 66 of 100
ELAGreen(Declined)MathGreen(Declined)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 378%73%76%71%72%
Grade 478%74%71%74%69%
Grade 582%72%75%85%81%
Grade 686%59%88%70%70%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 363%67%66%79%80%
Grade 496%78%79%81%86%
Grade 593%84%71%93%81%
Grade 686%72%84%74%96%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Three in four of students here meet the standard. Two in five clear it by a lot.

ELA73% met or exceeded
Exceeded 40%Met 33%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 3%
Math86% met or exceeded
Exceeded 44%Met 42%Nearly Met 12%Not Met 2%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school6642%78%—6.0%0.3%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope6639
% Exceeded42%21%
% Met+78%43%
Growth——
Absence6.0%17.9%
Suspension0.3%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 31st percentile in reading against the 95th in math, among elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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 a little above the middle of California elementary schools in reading, and the 95th 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 31st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.31st pctile · −4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +23 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 95th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.95th pctile · +23 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

How every group of students does here

At Liberty Elementary in Petaluma, 69.9% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 69.9% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. Liberty Elementary outperforms its district average for white students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (83.6% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 73 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 79% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 79%, district —, state 43%79%
WhiteWhite: this school 77%, district 77%, state 56%77% · −3 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 83%, district 83%, state 44%83% · +3 vs school
MaleMale: this school 80%, district 80%, state 42%80% · +0 vs school

7 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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

Reading
English Only71 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 71 students.−3 pts · −6 vs typical
White57 studentsWhite, reading: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 57 students.−2 pts · −7 vs typical
Math
English Only71 studentsEnglish Only, math: +22 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 71 students.+22 pts · +21 vs typical
White57 studentsWhite, math: +22 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 57 students.+22 pts · +17 vs typical
this school typical California elementary 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.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 23 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher23 · district 30
Teaching staff8 teachers
Avg. experience16.4 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalBeth Acosta
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$71,964 – $126,863
Principal salaryFrom $171,145
Superintendent salary$255,164

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 6.0%, district 7.0%, state 17.9%6.0% · −11.9pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.3%, district —, state 1.6%0.3% · −1.4pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–63.6%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $13,877 per student, about the same as the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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.

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

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $13,877, CA average $14,491$13,877 · spent at this school
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,159 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 67%Instruction support 14%Student services 3%Administration 11%Buildings & maintenance 5%

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

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$16,292 per pupil
2019$14,702 per pupil
2018$14,627 per pupil
2017$2,034 per pupil
2016$2,382 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

One in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 162 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

On the state's science test (CAST), 50% 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.

Hispanic or Latino25.3% · district 28.6% · CA 56.1%
White65.4% · district 44.6% · CA 19.9%
Asian0.6% · district 3.1% · CA 10.2%
Other8.6% · district 15.5% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch19.1% · CA 64%
Median income$117K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.04M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+47% · CA 35%
ZIP population33,785
Median age44 years

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

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Liberty ElementaryCharterStrong42%78%School being viewed
Heartwood CharterCharterSolid23%44%0.2 mi
Penngrove ElementaryCharterSolid20%49%2.5 mi
Wilson ElementaryPublicSolid23%54%2.8 mi
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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

3 private schools within 10 miles
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Liberty Elementary a good elementary school?
Liberty Elementary has a Scope Score of 66 out of 100, placing it in the 91st percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #507 statewide. 41.6% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 20.2 percentage points above the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 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 Liberty Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 78.1% of students at Liberty Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 41.6% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 36.5% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 41.6% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 160 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Liberty Elementary rank in California?
Liberty Elementary ranks #507 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 91st percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Liberty Elementary?
6.0% of students at Liberty Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 0.3%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. 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 Liberty Elementary compare to other schools in Petaluma?
Liberty Elementary scores 66/100 (91st percentile) among California elementary 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 162 students. Use the schools in Petaluma page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Liberty Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Liberty Elementary in Petaluma, 69.9% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 69.9% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. Liberty Elementary outperforms its district average for white students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (83.6% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 73 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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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The share who clear the bar carries this score.

78.1% of students met or exceeded the standard, versus 42.7% statewide.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard41.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded78.1%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism6.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.3%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+4.8pp-2.9pp—

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Liberty Elementary: reading the evidence

Liberty posts 41.6% exceeding the standard — versus 21.4% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.

Explore the underlying data →
Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

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

Liberty Elementary is ranked #507 statewide · #1 of 3 in Liberty Elementary.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard41.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded78.1%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism6.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.3%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+4.8pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 69 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 77 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 69 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 2.4pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.5pp lower vs 2024
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↑ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32528%44%28%0%72%+29
Grade 42955%14%21%10%69%+24
Grade 52650%31%19%0%81%+33
Grade 62726%44%30%0%70%+24
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32528%52%16%4%80%+35
Grade 42934%52%14%0%86%+45
Grade 52654%27%15%4%81%+46
Grade 62759%37%4%0%96%+62

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

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide2619%31%50%0%

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
White7369.9%+0+8
03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Liberty Elementary ←—6641.6%78.1%+4.8pp—0.3%
Heartwood Charter0.2 mi4523.0%44.4%+11.0pp—0.5%
Penngrove Elementary2.5 mi4119.6%49.1%−10.9pp—2.1%
Wilson Elementary2.8 mi4122.5%54.3%−2.5pp—0.2%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20197292#42047.7%81.6%1.6%0.2%+17.2pp
20226789#60540.6%74.6%6.5%0.2%+8.0pp
20236689#62741.3%73.0%4.4%0.2%+2.5pp
20247094#35545.2%80.6%3.5%0.8%+13.9pp
20256691#50741.6%78.1%6.0%0.3%+4.8pp
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
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female0.0%3.7%+3.7pp
Male0.0%3.7%+3.7pp
Hispanic/Latino0.0%2.4%+2.4pp
White0.0%2.8%+2.8pp
Students with Disabilities0.0%9.1%+9.1pp
English Learners0.0%——
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged0.0%2.7%+2.7pp
All Students0.0%3.7%+3.7pp
Two or More Races—15.4%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−480Average+2380Exceptional
English Only−371not categorised+2271not categorised
White−257Average+2257Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino−516Average+2816Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−615Moderate+2015Exceptional

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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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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