Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet posts 64% meeting the standard, and 35.2% 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 | 58 | 35% | 64% | +1.3 | 15.1% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet scores 58 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 80th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “64% proficient” and call it done. Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet deserves a closer read. The school sits in Lomita, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet's low-income kids hit 56.5% 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
Climbed from the 71st to the 80th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 500 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 64% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 61% | 62% | 55% | 58% |
| Grade 4 | 68% | 63% | 63% | 62% | 61% |
| Grade 5 | 58% | 69% | 65% | 65% | 73% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 65% | 69% | 69% | 69% | 70% |
| Grade 4 | 62% | 64% | 71% | 67% | 60% |
| Grade 5 | 54% | 49% | 55% | 59% | 58% |
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 14.5pp. 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.
Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet's most underrated number
56.5% 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.
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 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 Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet in Lomita, 56.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet outperforms its district average for low-income students by 15.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (56.9% Math proficient); Hispanic students (62.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.6 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 299 students tested.
5 of 14 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 rises by 13.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (24.0% vs 11.8%). 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
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.
$1,682 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 853 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), 46% 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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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 | 137 | 32% | 26% | 20% | 21% | 58% | +15 |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 38% | 23% | 19% | 19% | 61% | +16 |
| Grade 5 | 151 | 38% | 34% | 8% | 19% | 73% | +25 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 137 | 34% | 37% | 17% | 13% | 70% | +24 |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 34% | 27% | 28% | 11% | 60% | +19 |
| Grade 5 | 151 | 35% | 23% | 22% | 20% | 58% | +23 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 151 | 20% | 26% | 44% | 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 | 299 | 56.5% | +16 | +18 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 248 | 62.1% | +21 | +23 |
| Black/African American | 63 | 54.0% | +18 | +21 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet ← | — | 58 | 35.2% | 63.5% | +1.3 | 0.1% |
| Walteria Elementary | 1.6 mi | 82 | 57.6% | 82.6% | +14.4 | 0.7% |
| Rancho Vista Elementary | 2.3 mi | 77 | 59.3% | 80.9% | +18.6 | 0.1% |
| Hickory Elementary | 1.6 mi | 66 | 46.2% | 68.8% | −4.9 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 53 | 71 | #1598 | 33.0% | 61.8% | 9.9% | 0.0% | -7.8pp |
| 2022 | 54 | 82 | #1038 | 34.4% | 62.3% | 19.1% | 0.0% | -6.0pp |
| 2023 | 58 | 82 | #1008 | 35.8% | 64.2% | 21.2% | 0.0% | -5.4pp |
| 2024 | 62 | 85 | #883 | 38.5% | 62.7% | 14.5% | 0.1% | -0.1pp |
| 2025 | 58 | 80 | #1137 | 35.2% | 63.5% | 15.1% | 0.1% | +1.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.0% | 16.8% | +7.8pp |
| Male | 10.7% | 13.3% | +2.6pp |
| Asian | 7.1% | 8.2% | +1.1pp |
| Black/African American | 5.6% | 10.3% | +4.7pp |
| White | 3.1% | 5.6% | +2.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 11.4% | 18.6% | +7.2pp |
| Pacific Islander | 20.0% | 27.3% | +7.3pp |
| Two or More Races | 5.7% | 5.7% | +0.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 9.3% | 15.3% | +6.0pp |
| English Learners | 2.8% | 10.3% | +7.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 11.4% | 18.5% | +7.1pp |
| All Students | 9.9% | 15.0% | +5.1pp |
| Filipino | — | 27.8% | — |
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