Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy posts 35% meeting the standard and 14.9% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 43 | 15% | 35% | +4.7 | 23.8% | 0.9% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy scores 43 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 50th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Whittier, 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
Slipped from the 60th to the 50th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 35% meet the standard today, versus 43% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 42% | 13% | 27% | 37% | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 48% | 35% | 34% | 36% | 44% |
| Grade 5 | 54% | 45% | 56% | 54% | 48% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 40% | 15% | 31% | 41% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 41% | 16% | 16% | 24% | 31% |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 16% | 42% | 22% | 25% |
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 22.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp 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 what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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 Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy in Whittier, 37.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 43.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 5.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 26.2 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 151 students tested.
8 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 rises by 20.6pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.6pp.
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
$1,999 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 25% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 62
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 50
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 56
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 3 | 50 | 16% | 10% | 30% | 44% | 26% | −17 |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 17% | 27% | 21% | 34% | 44% | −1 |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 16% | 32% | 18% | 34% | 48% | +0 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50 | 18% | 20% | 20% | 42% | 38% | −8 |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 8% | 23% | 30% | 39% | 31% | −11 |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 14% | 12% | 35% | 39% | 25% | −10 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 51 | 10% | 16% | 55% | 20% |
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 | 151 | 37.1% | −6 | −1 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 149 | 40.9% | −6 | +2 |
| Students with Disabilities | 26 | 15.4% | −3 | −2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy ← | — | 43 | 14.9% | 35.5% | +4.7 | 0.9% |
| Daniel Phelan Language Academy | 2.4 mi | 64 | 33.4% | 62.6% | +10.3 | 0.1% |
| Leffingwell Elementary | 3 mi | 64 | 47.7% | 71.5% | −7.3 | 0.6% |
| Lake Marie Elementary | 1.8 mi | 60 | 18.8% | 42.2% | +20.3 | 1.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 47 | 60 | #2187 | 18.4% | 42.6% | 15.3% | 0.8% | +1.0pp |
| 2022 | 36 | 50 | #2893 | 7.0% | 23.4% | 47.0% | 0.5% | +16.3pp |
| 2023 | 40 | 53 | #2688 | 9.8% | 34.2% | 44.7% | 2.5% | +20.3pp |
| 2024 | 52 | 73 | #1557 | 14.2% | 35.8% | 30.0% | 0.9% | -0.8pp |
| 2025 | 43 | 50 | #2849 | 14.9% | 35.5% | 23.8% | 0.9% | +4.7pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 16.2% | 25.1% | +8.9pp |
| Male | 14.8% | 23.5% | +8.7pp |
| Filipino | 29.2% | 7.7% | -21.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.2% | 25.6% | +12.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 15.5% | 34.2% | +18.7pp |
| English Learners | 15.2% | 25.0% | +9.8pp |
| Foster Youth | 10.5% | — | — |
| Homeless | 16.7% | 34.8% | +18.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 15.3% | 25.7% | +10.4pp |
| All Students | 15.4% | 24.3% | +8.9pp |
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