Luther Burbank Middle: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Luther Burbank posts 43% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 51 | 18% | 43% | +15.4 | 20.5% | 1.6% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Luther Burbank Middle scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 73rd percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “43% proficient” and call it done. Luther Burbank deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 62nd to the 73rd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 200 middle 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 6 | 39% | 39% | 38% | 38% | 39% |
| Grade 7 | 50% | 43% | 46% | 52% | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 45% | 36% | 38% | 37% | 49% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 29% | 31% | 30% | 31% | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 45% | 39% | 42% | 42% | 44% |
| Grade 8 | 44% | 28% | 41% | 35% | 51% |
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 3.2pp across grades; the floor rises 10.0pp. The state average falls 0.5pp 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.
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 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 Luther Burbank Middle in Los Angeles, 42.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Luther Burbank Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 1.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (38.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (42.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 40.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 690 students tested.
6 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 10.3pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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.
$1,865 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 28% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 57
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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 6 | 269 | 13% | 26% | 29% | 32% | 39% | −8 |
| Grade 7 | 259 | 13% | 35% | 20% | 32% | 48% | +0 |
| Grade 8 | 259 | 16% | 32% | 24% | 27% | 49% | +3 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 273 | 16% | 14% | 31% | 39% | 30% | −5 |
| Grade 7 | 265 | 20% | 24% | 27% | 29% | 44% | +10 |
| Grade 8 | 264 | 27% | 23% | 22% | 27% | 51% | +18 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 260 | 7% | 20% | 58% | 14% |
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 | 690 | 42.5% | +2 | +4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 716 | 42.0% | +1 | +3 |
| Students with Disabilities | 151 | 13.9% | −2 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Burbank Middle ← | — | 51 | 17.6% | 43.3% | +15.4 | 1.6% |
| South Pasadena Middle | 2.1 mi | 82 | 58.0% | 81.3% | +1.4 | 1.8% |
| Florence Nightingale Middle | 3 mi | 45 | 18.4% | 39.5% | +3.2 | 0.3% |
| El Sereno Middle | 2.8 mi | 44 | 20.2% | 42.8% | +3.7 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 43 | 62 | #772 | 13.7% | 42.1% | 19.0% | 0.5% | +10.2pp |
| 2022 | 35 | 47 | #1149 | 12.0% | 36.0% | 37.2% | 0.7% | -3.3pp |
| 2023 | 47 | 65 | #757 | 15.1% | 39.1% | 32.0% | 0.6% | +5.6pp |
| 2024 | 43 | 62 | #841 | 17.4% | 39.1% | 26.7% | 0.5% | +1.5pp |
| 2025 | 51 | 73 | #600 | 17.6% | 43.3% | 20.5% | 1.6% | +15.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 18.9% | 20.9% | +2.0pp |
| Male | 19.0% | 20.1% | +1.1pp |
| Asian | 6.3% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 33.3% | — | — |
| White | 5.9% | 15.0% | +9.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 19.3% | 21.4% | +2.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 20.0% | 26.6% | +6.6pp |
| English Learners | 16.3% | 15.8% | -0.5pp |
| Homeless | 45.0% | 19.2% | -25.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.1% | 21.8% | +1.7pp |
| All Students | 19.0% | 20.5% | +1.5pp |
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