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Los Osos Middle — Rating & test scores

1555 El Moro Street, Los Osos · 494 students · Grades 6–8

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Scope Score 80

SolidScope Score · 72nd percentile. Higher than 72 in 100 of the 2,529 California public middle schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Well above California in English (reading and writing) and math, grades 6–8, spring 2026: 67% and 49% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 49% and 37%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 6–8: 474 in English, 466 in math
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 6, 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,254,039 in English and 1,254,800 in math tested).

Overview

Is Los Osos Middle a good middle school?

Solid. Los Osos Middle is higher than most California middle schools on test results and progress in English. Los Osos Middle is lower than most on attendance. Los Osos Middle is in the middle on progress in math.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced8367%
Math, Proficient or Advanced7749%
English, Advanced8530%
Math, Advanced8030%

Progress in a year, 2025

English68+6 pts
Math50−1 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance3022 in 100
Los Osos Middle’s place among California middle schools, out of 100San Luis Coastal Unified’s other middle schoolBar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 30% of students tested in English and 30% in math scored Advanced, against 19% and 21% across California. Advanced is the top of the state’s four levels. 6.4% of students (32 of 501) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school.

Each bar is Los Osos Middle’s place among 2,529 California public middle schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 6–8. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Sentence 1
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026. All students tested in grades 6–8: 474 in English, 466 in math. California: CDE’s grade 6, 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,254,039 in English and 1,254,800 in math tested).
Sentence 2
CDE suspension file, 2025–26. All students enrolled during the year (CDE’s cumulative enrollment): 501. District and California figures are averages of school rates (2 San Luis Coastal Unified schools; 2,529 scored California middle schools), our calculation.

In its own words

What does Los Osos Middle say about itself?

We haven’t read Los Osos Middle’s website yet. Until we do, the school’s own site is the best place to hear it in its own words.

Open loms.slcusd.org (opens in a new tab)

Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

In English, yes. In math, about the same. In 2025, students here in grades 6–8 scored 6 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 1 point lower, which the state calls Average.

English

+6

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

White285+5 points
Low-income230+6 points
Hispanic or Latino107+7 points
Students with disabilities77−3 points
English learners60+5 points

Math

−1

point lower than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

White283−1 points
Low-income228−3 points
Hispanic or Latino106−1 points
Students with disabilities75−14 points
English learners60+5 points

Grades 6–8, 2025, 453 students in English, 451 in math with scores in both years. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 6 points above that expected score, and in math 1 point below it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 8 scores here with the school’s grade 6 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

SchoolScope middle standardized cohort gain: approximately 45th percentile on a calibrated reference scale, not an empirical school rank. This score compares school-level grade groups across English and math, not matched students in California's separate growth model.

Schools like it

How does Los Osos Middle compare with schools like it?

Los Osos Middle’s Scope Score is 80. 334 California middle schools, counting Los Osos Middle, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 77. Los Osos Middle’s result is higher than 222 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 334

  1. Students from low-income families: 48%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 97th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 47%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 96th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 46%

    Elevate

    San Diego

    Scope Score 91Strong · 96th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 54%

    Scope Score 91Strong · 96th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 53%

    Scope Score 90Strong · 95th percentile

334 California public middle schools where 45% to 57% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public middle school we score where 45% to 57% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Los Osos Middle’s share. The count includes Los Osos Middle. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English stayed at 67% and math went from 53% to 49%.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grades 6–8. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202670%67%Los Osos MiddleThis school49%CaliforniaCalifornia

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202655%49%Los Osos MiddleThis school37%CaliforniaCalifornia

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now.

English, grades 6–8: share at the top two levels
SpringLos Osos MiddleCaliforniaTested here
201770%48%591
201870%49%577
201970%50%542
202265%47%507
202363%46%506
202463%46%468
202567%49%475
202667%49%474
Math, grades 6–8: share at the top two levels
SpringLos Osos MiddleCaliforniaTested here
201755%37%594
201857%37%572
201955%38%542
202247%31%503
202346%32%497
202446%33%462
202553%36%472
202649%37%466

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Well above California in both subjects.

English

67%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

15183730
San Luis Coastal Unified70%California49%

Math

49%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

27241930
San Luis Coastal Unified56%California37%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 67% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 49% in math, against 49% and 37% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 6–8 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Grade 7 stands apart in English: 77% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 67% across grades 6–8 here, spring 2026. Each grade is a different group of students, so this describes one year’s class.

How does math compare with English?

In grades 6–8, spring 2026, math trails English by 18 percentage points in the share who scored Proficient or Advanced, against 12 points across California. The grades 6–8 cards above give each subject’s share.

Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced58%77%62%
Advanced27%34%28%
Proficient31%43%34%
Developing level21%14%22%
Minimal21%9%16%
Tested131173170
California48%51%49%
Difference+10+26+13

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced47%54%44%
Advanced33%33%25%
Proficient14%21%19%
Developing level23%24%26%
Minimal30%22%30%
Tested128171167
California37%38%36%
Difference+10+16+8

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 6–8 · This school30%37%18%15%474
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,254,039
English, grades 6–8 · San Luis Coastal Unified35%35%17%13%1,608
Math, grades 6–8 · This school30%19%24%27%466
Math, grades 6–8 · California21%16%23%40%1,254,800
Math, grades 6–8 · San Luis Coastal Unified36%20%22%22%1,597

Spring 2026, grades 6–8 combined: 474 tested in English, 466 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

White students are the largest group here, at 59% of students. 107 of 494 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

22in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (107 of 494 students).

At the average San Luis Coastal Unified middle school: 20 in 100. At the average California middle school: 18 in 100.

Suspensions: 6.4% of students were suspended at least once (32 of 501). Average California middle school 3.7%.

Students, 2024–25

494

students in grades 6–8.

White 59%Hispanic or Latino 28%Two or more races 5%Filipino 5%

Family income

51%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 254 of 494. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

29

teachers, with 15 years of experience on average.

7% were in their first year.

82% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

55%

of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (11 of 20 students).

San Luis Coastal Unified: 55%. California: 47%.

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Sources: California Department of Education and the California School Dashboard. Each tile names its year.

Missing school, by grade
Grade 6
19 in 100 students in grade 6 were chronically absent (27 of 141).
Grades 7–8
23 in 100 students in grades 7–8 were chronically absent (80 of 353).
Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
White59%
Hispanic or Latino28%
Two or more races5%
Filipino5%
Asian—
Black or African American—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. English learner progress: California School Dashboard, 2026 . Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 24.5 of 29.8 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Three student groups here scored well above the same groups across California in English.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • White279 tested74%California 62%
  • Low-income254 tested54%California 39%
  • Hispanic or Latino132 tested49%California 39%
  • Homeless54 tested41%California 27%
  • Students with disabilities88 tested25%California 14%

Low-income and homeless students and students with disabilities all score below California’s rate for all students statewide. 54% of low-income students scored Proficient or Advanced in English (grades 6–8, spring 2026), against 39% for the same group across California. The chart gives each group’s figures. Every group’s math results are in the table below.

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 6–8 English, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 6–8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs San Luis Coastal Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 254 tested in English, 249 in math
English54%054%+1539%
Math33%−437%+726%
White · 279 tested in English, 273 in math
English74%−478%+1262%
Math56%−1066%+650%
Hispanic or Latino · 132 tested in English, 130 in math
English49%−150%+1039%
Math31%−435%+625%
Students with disabilities · 88 tested in English, 86 in math
English25%−126%+1114%
Math6%−1117%−410%
Homeless · 54 tested in English, 52 in math
English41%+140%+1427%
Math25%−328%+817%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in San Luis Coastal Unified, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.

Military-family students and students of two or more races: fewer than 30 tested here. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native and Pacific Islander students, English learners and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Los Osos Middle. These are not star ratings or reviews.

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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

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Money

How much is spent on each student here?

$16,577 for each student in 2024–25. California’s middle schools spent $19,269 for each student.

$16,577

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$11,867
The school’s share of district office costs
$4,710
Of the total, from federal funds
$1,529
  • Los Osos Middle$16,577
  • San Luis Coastal Unified middle schools$15,603
  • California middle schools$19,269

The district and California figures combine their middle schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 1,241 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

The neighborhood

What is the area around Los Osos Middle like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 93402. They are not figures for the families at Los Osos Middle.

Typical household income in a year

$109,090

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 93402.

Typical home value
$806,800
People who live in this ZIP code
14,197
Typical age
48.7 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
54%

What you can do

Who can act on Los Osos Middle’s results?

San Luis Coastal Unified’s board decides Los Osos Middle’s plan.

When the plan is set

San Luis Coastal Unified’s board must adopt its yearly plan (LCAP) by July 1, after at least one public hearing at an earlier meeting.

Read the 2026–27 plan (LCAP)

How to take part

  1. Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  2. Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  3. Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  4. Read the midyear report, due by February 28.

State support

The state hasn’t placed Los Osos Middle in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

Extra state help for the district

The state is giving San Luis Coastal Unified extra help in 2026. It qualified on the 2025 California School Dashboard. The county office must help the district for at least three years, including a review of its yearly plan.

Extra help for San Luis Coastal Unified: CDE’s assistance status file for the 2025 California School Dashboard. Source 

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 6 questions to Los Osos Middle. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What does the school try before a suspension, and who talks with the family?6.4% suspended at least once, 2025–26 (32 of 501 students); average California middle school: 3.7%
  2. What changes for a student who falls behind in math?1 point lower in math than California students who had the same score the year before, grades 6–8, 2025 (451 students)
  3. Which math courses can students take, and how are placements decided?
  4. Which electives and high-school transition supports are available?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

What comes after Los Osos Middle, and how do I get in?

Ask San Luis Coastal Unified which school serves your address.

  1. Elementary
    Monarch Grove Elementary
    Scope Score 86Strong · 88th percentile · 2026Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)
  2. Middle · this school
    Los Osos Middle
    Grades 6–8Scope Score 80Solid · 72nd percentile
  3. High
    Morro Bay High
    Scope Score 82Strong · 77th percentile · 2025Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

These links come from past records and from distance. Confirm your child’s school with the district. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Elementary links

  • Monarch Grove Elementary

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    Scope Score 86 · Strong · 88th percentile · elementary · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

  • Baywood Elementary

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    Scope Score 83 · Strong · 80th percentile · elementary · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

  • Del Mar Elementary

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    Scope Score 77 · Solid · 57th percentile · elementary · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

High-school links

  • Morro Bay High

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    Scope Score 82 · Strong · 77th percentile · high · 2025

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

Where the path ends: Morro Bay High
Morro Bay HighScope Score 82 · Strong · 77th percentile · 2025historical direct overlap

The road from this school ends at Morro Bay High. UC records 10 enrollees from Morro Bay High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 18 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Morro Bay High around 2029, and a school can change a lot in 3 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 78% of the students who finished high school at Morro Bay High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

10 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 18 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Morro Bay High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

Where it is

Where is Los Osos Middle?

Address
1555 El Moro Street, Los Osos 93402Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Karl BlumAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated February 9, 2023.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 8 common questions

How do I get in?

Ask San Luis Coastal Unified which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Los Osos Middle a good middle school?

Los Osos Middle has a Scope Score of 80. It scored higher than 72 in 100 of California’s 2,529 scored public middle schools (Solid, 72nd percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 22 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 20 in 100 at the average San Luis Coastal Unified middle school. 6.4% of students (32 of 501) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

In English, yes. In math, about the same. In 2025, students here in grades 6–8 scored 6 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 1 point lower, which the state calls Average.

  • Included in this measure: 453 students in English, 451 in math

See the details ↓

How does grade 7 do in English?

Grade 7 stands apart in English: 77% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 67% across grades 6–8 here, spring 2026. Each grade is a different group of students, so this describes one year’s class. See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 54% of low-income students in grades 6–8 at Los Osos Middle scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 39% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

Where does it lead?

In the 2015–16 federal attendance-boundary survey, most of Los Osos Middle's attendance area fell inside the attendance area of Morro Bay High. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education’s School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary doesn’t guarantee placement; confirm your address with the district.

  • Morro Bay High: Scope Score 82, Strong, 77th percentile among California’s regular public and charter high schools, 2025 results

See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #684 of 2,529 California middle schools we score
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math30%6442%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math57%6423%
8th graders in 2026 against 6th graders in 2024 (partly different children)+44 scale-score pts4520%
Chronically absent22 in 100455%
Suspension rate6.4% (32 of 501)405%
English learners: top level9%335%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California middle schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–268072#684California middle schools · 2,529 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–1911 in 1002.7% (16 of 588)+6
2021–22not on filenot on file0
2022–23not on filenot on file+6
2023–2421 in 1004.9% (25 of 509)−1
2024–2525 in 1005.8% (29 of 504)−9
2025–2622 in 1006.4% (32 of 501)+1

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 6 and grade 8 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English47430%67%
2026 · Math46630%49%
2025 · English47531%67%
2025 · Math47230%53%
2024 · English46830%63%
2024 · Math46226%46%
2023 · English50624%63%
2023 · Math49725%46%
2022 · English50729%65%
2022 · Math50321%47%
2019 · English54234%70%
2019 · Math54233%55%
2018 · English57729%70%
2018 · Math57232%57%
2017 · English59133%70%
2017 · Math59430%55%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 6 · English13370%
2025 · Grade 7 · English16769%
2025 · Grade 8 · English17563%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math13460%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math16752%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math17147%
2024 · Grade 6 · English13356%
2024 · Grade 7 · English18068%
2024 · Grade 8 · English15563%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math13349%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math17651%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math15339%
2023 · Grade 6 · English16259%
2023 · Grade 7 · English16260%
2023 · Grade 8 · English18268%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math15844%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math16145%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math17847%
2022 · Grade 6 · English12456%
2022 · Grade 7 · English19672%
2022 · Grade 8 · English18765%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math12346%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math19555%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math18537%
2019 · Grade 6 · English15662%
2019 · Grade 7 · English20473%
2019 · Grade 8 · English18273%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math15751%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math20362%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math18252%
2018 · Grade 6 · English17961%
2018 · Grade 7 · English18569%
2018 · Grade 8 · English21378%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math17455%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math18557%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math21359%
2017 · Grade 6 · English16963%
2017 · Grade 7 · English21275%
2017 · Grade 8 · English21072%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math17048%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math21263%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math21253%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide17024%29%38%9%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income25454%0+15
White27974%−4+12
Hispanic or Latino13249%−1+10
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students+6453Accelerated−1451Average
English-only students+6375not categorized−2373not categorized
White+5285Accelerated−1283Average
Low-income+6230Accelerated−3228Average
Hispanic or Latino+7107Accelerated−1106Average
Students with disabilities−377Average−1475Moderate
English learners+560Accelerated+560Accelerated
Recently reclassified as fluent in English+545not categorized+445not categorized
Homeless+443Average+1142Accelerated
Two or more races+731Accelerated−532Average
Filipino+1421Accelerated+721Accelerated
English learners only+515not categorized+315not categorized

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 6–8. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 8 against the same school’s grade 6 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 8 in 2026 against grade 6 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 6
29%
exceeded standard · 56% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 133 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 8
28%
Advanced · 62% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 170 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 133 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English+6 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 6–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 6–8

453 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +6 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's −2-point median for California middle school records.

State model · math−1 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 6–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 6–8

451 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, math: −1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's −3-point median for California middle school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California middle school records, the median English estimate is −2 and the middle half fall between −10 and +5 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 6–8, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 25 in 100 → 2025–26 · 22 in 100 · −3 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 5.8% (29 of 504) → 2025–26 · 6.4% (32 of 501) · +0.6 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female10 in 10023 in 100+13 in 100
Male12 in 10020 in 100+8 in 100
Filipino1 of 204 of 25—
Hispanic or Latino8 in 10024 in 100+16 in 100
Two or more races4 of 294 of 26—
White13 in 10022 in 100+9 in 100
Students with disabilities17 of 9732 in 100—
English learners3 of 466 of 22—
Homeless6 of 4618 of 57—
Low-income13 in 10028 in 100+15 in 100
All students11 in 10022 in 100+11 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$15,433 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 7,332 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$1,162 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 494

Central federal expenditures attributed here$367 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 494

District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,930 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 55%Instruction support 13%Student services 12%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 2%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$76,599,45454.61%55%
Instruction support$18,577,93513.25%13%
Student services$17,352,30512.37%12%
Administration$10,892,3627.77%8%
Buildings & maintenance$14,477,16210.32%10%
Other$2,359,6021.68%2%
Total$140,258,819100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $140,258,819 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$15,433 per pupil
2020$13,253 per pupil
2019$13,356 per pupil
2018$12,344 per pupil
2017$12,339 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 93402 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 93402 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$109,090
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)54%
ZIP-area population14,197
Median age48.7 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 93402 →

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