Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Longfellow Arts and Technology posts 61% meeting the standard, and 34.4% 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 | 67 | 34% | 61% | -6.7 | 10.2% | 1.3% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle scores 67 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 92nd percentile of 2,238 California middle 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 “61% proficient” and call it done. Longfellow Arts and Technology deserves a closer read. The school sits in Berkeley, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 61.1% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 59th to the 92nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 600 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 61% of students meet the standard today, above the 37% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 36% | 38% | 47% | 63% | 66% |
| Grade 7 | 39% | 52% | 45% | 53% | 61% |
| Grade 8 | 39% | 46% | 49% | 45% | 55% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 29% | 22% | 38% | 57% | 61% |
| Grade 7 | 39% | 34% | 34% | 51% | 63% |
| Grade 8 | 38% | 39% | 47% | 42% | 59% |
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 13.3pp across grades; the floor slips 11.3pp. The state average falls 0.5pp 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 6 and grade 8 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 Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle in Berkeley, 40.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 47.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 7.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (40.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (52.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 209 students tested.
5 of 15 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 1.6pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -7.7pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
$696 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 462 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 45% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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3 within ~3 mi · avg 77
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3 within ~3 mi · avg 66
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 166 | 33% | 33% | 19% | 15% | 66% | +20 |
| Grade 7 | 152 | 32% | 29% | 20% | 18% | 61% | +14 |
| Grade 8 | 131 | 20% | 35% | 27% | 18% | 55% | +9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 166 | 40% | 20% | 21% | 18% | 61% | +26 |
| Grade 7 | 152 | 39% | 24% | 23% | 14% | 63% | +29 |
| Grade 8 | 131 | 42% | 17% | 21% | 20% | 59% | +26 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 130 | 13% | 32% | 47% | 8% |
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 | 209 | 40.2% | −7 | +2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 148 | 52.7% | −5 | +14 |
| White | 129 | 86.8% | +1 | +25 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle ← | — | 67 | 34.4% | 60.9% | −6.7 | 1.3% |
| Willard Middle | 2.1 mi | 79 | 50.1% | 76.5% | +6.5 | 3.3% |
| Albany Middle | 1.7 mi | 70 | 43.1% | 72.5% | −2.4 | 2.4% |
| Martin Luther King Middle | 1 mi | 62 | 40.1% | 69.1% | −0.1 | 2.7% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 43 | 59 | #816 | 16.5% | 36.8% | 4.2% | 3.7% | +6.4pp |
| 2022 | 48 | 75 | #537 | 15.4% | 38.7% | 11.6% | 4.3% | +12.5pp |
| 2023 | 49 | 69 | #676 | 19.0% | 43.5% | 22.8% | 5.1% | +5.6pp |
| 2024 | 58 | 85 | #330 | 25.2% | 51.8% | 14.6% | 3.1% | -16.9pp |
| 2025 | 67 | 92 | #182 | 34.4% | 60.9% | 10.2% | 1.3% | -6.7pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.2% | 8.0% | +2.8pp |
| Male | 3.1% | 12.0% | +8.9pp |
| Asian | 4.3% | 8.6% | +4.3pp |
| Black/African American | 4.1% | 16.9% | +12.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 2.8% | 9.9% | +7.1pp |
| Two or More Races | 5.7% | 3.6% | -2.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 6.0% | 14.5% | +8.5pp |
| English Learners | 5.5% | 11.8% | +6.3pp |
| Homeless | 0.0% | 21.4% | +21.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 4.8% | 14.6% | +9.8pp |
| All Students | 4.1% | 9.9% | +5.8pp |
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