Madison Park Academy 6-12: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Madison Park Academy 6-12 posts low test scores — and grade 8 tests above grade 6 here this year, by 6.1pp. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 16 | 1% | 9% | +6.1 | 50.6% | 11.6% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Madison Park Academy 6-12 scores 16 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 2nd percentile of 2,238 California middle 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 “9% proficient” and call it done. Madison Park Academy 6-12 deserves a closer read. The school sits in Oakland, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 2nd percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 9% meet the standard today, versus 17% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 19% | 14% | 23% | 17% | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 30% | 11% | 14% | 13% | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 19% | 27% | 18% | 16% | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 24% | 47% | 41% | 30% | 33% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 13% | 3% | 1% | 7% | 1% |
| Grade 7 | 14% | 5% | 3% | 6% | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 9% | 4% | 4% | 1% | 5% |
| Grade 11 | 3% | 9% | 11% | 9% | 7% |
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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- 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 Madison Park Academy 6-12 in Oakland, 17.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 24.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Madison Park Academy 6-12 trails its district average for low-income students by 6.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (5.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (20.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 14.9 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 330 students tested.
6 of 13 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 7.7pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +2.9pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
Madison Park Academy 6-12 serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,238 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), 7% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 41
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 81 | 0% | 7% | 20% | 73% | 7% | −39 |
| Grade 7 | 83 | 1% | 12% | 29% | 58% | 13% | −34 |
| Grade 8 | 76 | 3% | 13% | 24% | 61% | 16% | −30 |
| Grade 11 | 88 | 7% | 26% | 15% | 52% | 33% | −14 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 80 | 0% | 1% | 13% | 86% | 1% | −34 |
| Grade 7 | 84 | 4% | 5% | 26% | 65% | 8% | −26 |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 1% | 4% | 14% | 81% | 5% | −27 |
| Grade 11 | 86 | 0% | 7% | 10% | 83% | 7% | −16 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 169 | 1% | 6% | 57% | 36% |
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 | 330 | 17.5% | −7 | −21 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 267 | 20.9% | −1 | −18 |
| English Learners | 130 | 2.4% | −3 | −8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Park Academy 6-12 ← | — | 16 | 1.4% | 8.5% | +6.1 | 11.6% |
| Oakland Unity Middle | 2.3 mi | 43 | 13.5% | 43.5% | +2.0 | 0.4% |
| John Muir Middle | 1.1 mi | 42 | 12.8% | 34.1% | −3.5 | 3.4% |
| Washington Manor Middle | 3.2 mi | 38 | 12.3% | 32.0% | +3.0 | 3.7% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 17 | 4 | #1922 | 3.6% | 17.4% | 17.5% | 14.4% | -2.0pp |
| 2022 | 26 | 22 | #1693 | 1.7% | 10.5% | 49.5% | 11.2% | +6.7pp |
| 2023 | 24 | 8 | #2008 | 1.3% | 10.6% | 67.2% | 10.1% | -1.0pp |
| 2024 | 18 | 7 | #2062 | 1.9% | 10.1% | 48.7% | 10.9% | -3.4pp |
| 2025 | 16 | 2 | #2195 | 1.4% | 8.5% | 50.6% | 11.6% | +6.1pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 21 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 16.8% | 51.8% | +35.0pp |
| Male | 18.3% | 53.2% | +34.9pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 54.5% | +54.5pp |
| Black/African American | 23.3% | 68.0% | +44.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.9% | 49.0% | +32.1pp |
| Pacific Islander | 14.3% | 86.7% | +72.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 25.0% | 57.7% | +32.7pp |
| English Learners | 20.7% | 56.3% | +35.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 17.3% | 52.2% | +34.9pp |
| All Students | 17.6% | 52.6% | +35.0pp |
| Filipino | — | 54.5% | — |
| Homeless | — | 51.1% | — |
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