Lord Baden-Powell: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Lord Baden-Powell posts 43% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 50 | 21% | 43% | +1.5 | 17.6% | 1.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Lord Baden-Powell scores 50 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 66th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “43% proficient” and call it done. Lord Baden-Powell deserves a closer read. The school sits in Anaheim, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Lord Baden-Powell's low-income kids hit 48.7% 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 50th to the 66th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 800 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 43% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 52% | 36% | 41% | 21% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 48% | 54% | 49% | 43% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 48% | 58% | 53% | 50% | 58% |
| Grade 6 | 49% | 55% | 62% | 60% | 59% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 35% | 28% | 38% | 38% | 39% |
| Grade 4 | 44% | 39% | 30% | 33% | 41% |
| Grade 5 | 36% | 28% | 32% | 37% | 28% |
| Grade 6 | 38% | 33% | 35% | 44% | 37% |
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 11.8pp across grades; the floor rises 14.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Lord Baden-Powell's most underrated number
48.7% 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 Lord Baden-Powell in Anaheim, 48.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 44.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Lord Baden-Powell outperforms its district average for low-income students by 4.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (42.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 10.8 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 115 students tested.
9 of 17 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 24.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (22.9% vs 12.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,593 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 248 students, this school is much smaller than 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), 31% 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 | 32 | 25% | 19% | 25% | 31% | 44% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 32% | 18% | 15% | 35% | 50% | +5 |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 13% | 45% | 24% | 18% | 58% | +10 |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 22% | 37% | 27% | 15% | 59% | +12 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 33 | 18% | 21% | 21% | 39% | 39% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 21% | 21% | 35% | 24% | 41% | −0 |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% | 13% | 33% | 38% | 28% | −7 |
| Grade 6 | 43 | 16% | 21% | 37% | 26% | 37% | +2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 39 | 15% | 15% | 59% | 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 | 115 | 48.7% | +4 | +10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 109 | 42.2% | +0 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Baden-Powell ← | — | 50 | 20.8% | 43.4% | +1.5 | 1.1% |
| Patton Elementary | 2.5 mi | 79 | 56.9% | 80.3% | +11.0 | 0.4% |
| Buena Terra Elementary | 2.1 mi | 73 | 48.6% | 76.9% | +10.5 | 0.1% |
| Frank Vessels Elementary | 2.3 mi | 70 | 44.5% | 66.8% | +7.5 | 0.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 42 | 50 | #2765 | 18.6% | 43.8% | 15.9% | 1.4% | -1.4pp |
| 2022 | 44 | 67 | #1903 | 18.2% | 40.5% | 43.0% | 0.4% | +11.2pp |
| 2023 | 45 | 65 | #2020 | 18.8% | 40.3% | 28.6% | 1.4% | +3.2pp |
| 2024 | 50 | 68 | #1841 | 16.4% | 36.8% | 23.0% | 1.1% | +14.0pp |
| 2025 | 50 | 66 | #1938 | 20.8% | 43.4% | 17.6% | 1.1% | +1.5pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 17.4% | 15.8% | -1.6pp |
| Male | 14.9% | 19.1% | +4.2pp |
| Asian | 8.5% | 5.7% | -2.8pp |
| Black/African American | 12.5% | 13.3% | +0.8pp |
| White | 7.7% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.1% | 21.4% | +5.3pp |
| Pacific Islander | 23.1% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 33.0% | 28.2% | -4.8pp |
| English Learners | 13.3% | 19.5% | +6.2pp |
| Homeless | 17.3% | 16.0% | -1.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 16.3% | 18.8% | +2.5pp |
| All Students | 16.0% | 17.5% | +1.5pp |
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