Linscott Charter: The score trails the state median. The trajectory doesn't.
Linscott Charter still trails on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40 | 11% | 35% | +7.2 | 17.7% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Linscott Charter scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 45th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. Linscott Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Watsonville, where three in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Linscott Charter's low-income kids hit 51.3% 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.
As a charter, Linscott Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 45th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 31% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 41% | 28% | 32% | 43% | 37% |
| Grade 4 | 33% | 37% | 32% | 23% | 46% |
| Grade 5 | 47% | 60% | 43% | 46% | 50% |
| Grade 6 | 57% | 79% | 77% | 80% | 68% |
| Grade 7 | 42% | 50% | 72% | 50% | 73% |
| Grade 8 | 45% | 55% | 41% | 66% | 50% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 32% | 31% | 39% | 50% | 30% |
| Grade 4 | 10% | 23% | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 23% | 24% | 40% | 21% | 31% |
| Grade 6 | 40% | 62% | 63% | 43% | 54% |
| Grade 7 | 45% | 30% | 52% | 37% | 40% |
| Grade 8 | 46% | 27% | 21% | 48% | 30% |
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 rises 6.3pp across grades; the floor rises 13.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp 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.
Linscott Charter's most underrated number
51.3% 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.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- 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 Linscott Charter in Watsonville, 51.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 19.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Linscott Charter outperforms its district average for low-income students by 31.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (51.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 3.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 115 students tested.
7 of 13 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 2.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.2pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (27.3% vs 11.3%). 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.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
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 258 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 20% 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 31
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 | 27 | 4% | 33% | 26% | 37% | 37% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 32% | 14% | 21% | 32% | 46% | +2 |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 10% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 50% | +2 |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 25% | 43% | 25% | 7% | 68% | +21 |
| Grade 7 | 30 | 17% | 57% | 20% | 7% | 73% | +26 |
| Grade 8 | 30 | 13% | 37% | 47% | 3% | 50% | +4 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 7% | 22% | 30% | 41% | 30% | −16 |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 4% | 14% | 54% | 29% | 18% | −24 |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 10% | 21% | 34% | 34% | 31% | −4 |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 32% | 21% | 21% | 25% | 54% | +19 |
| Grade 7 | 30 | 10% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 40% | +6 |
| Grade 8 | 30 | 7% | 23% | 20% | 50% | 30% | −2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 59 | 7% | 14% | 76% | 3% |
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 | 115 | 51.3% | +31 | +13 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 143 | 51.0% | +30 | +12 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linscott Charter ← | — | 40 | 11.2% | 35.3% | +7.2 | 0.6% |
| Watsonville Prep | 0.4 mi | 33 | 12.6% | 34.5% | −0.9 | 1.9% |
| Landmark Elementary | 1.5 mi | 31 | 2.6% | 11.6% | +7.6 | 3.5% |
| H. A. Hyde Elementary | 1.5 mi | 29 | 4.4% | 14.5% | −0.5 | 1.6% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 38 | 38 | #3406 | 12.4% | 31.0% | 4.9% | 2.2% | -1.3pp |
| 2022 | 46 | 71 | #1644 | 16.3% | 33.8% | 16.1% | 0.8% | +12.8pp |
| 2023 | 44 | 61 | #2258 | 13.2% | 34.1% | 14.6% | 0.0% | +6.0pp |
| 2024 | 43 | 54 | #2623 | 17.1% | 34.0% | 10.6% | 0.2% | -12.5pp |
| 2025 | 40 | 45 | #3176 | 11.2% | 35.3% | 17.7% | 0.6% | +7.2pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 3.9% | 17.5% | +13.6pp |
| Male | 5.6% | 17.6% | +12.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 4.7% | 16.3% | +11.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 5.4% | 16.2% | +10.8pp |
| English Learners | 1.9% | 15.9% | +14.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 5.4% | 18.5% | +13.1pp |
| All Students | 4.7% | 17.6% | +12.9pp |
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