Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences posts 46% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42 | 20% | 46% | -7.6 | 25.7% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 50th 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 “46% proficient” and call it done. Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences deserves a closer read. The school sits in Pico Rivera, 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 25th to the 50th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1200 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 46% of students meet the standard today, above the 35% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50% | 37% | 43% | 48% | 43% |
| Grade 4 | 37% | 33% | 28% | 38% | 59% |
| Grade 5 | 36% | 42% | 35% | 40% | 39% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 41% | 37% | 36% | 37% | 48% |
| Grade 4 | 26% | 21% | 38% | 38% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 23% | 25% | 21% | 29% | 38% |
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 3.6pp across grades; the floor slips 4.7pp. 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 how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences in Pico Rivera, 47.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 37.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences outperforms its district average for low-income students by 10.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (47.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (46.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.7 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 169 students tested.
7 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 falls by 13.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +5.1pp.
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
What gets spent here
$303 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), 35% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 64
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 52
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 55
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 | 76 | 20% | 24% | 28% | 29% | 43% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 34% | 25% | 19% | 22% | 59% | +15 |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% | 23% | 23% | 39% | 39% | −9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 77 | 14% | 34% | 30% | 22% | 48% | +2 |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 23% | 27% | 30% | 20% | 50% | +8 |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 13% | 25% | 27% | 36% | 38% | +2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 63 | 10% | 25% | 48% | 17% |
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 | 169 | 47.9% | +10 | +10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 190 | 46.8% | +7 | +8 |
| English Learners | 21 | 14.3% | +5 | +4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences ← | — | 42 | 20.0% | 46.2% | −7.6 | 0.3% |
| Cresson Elementary | 2.6 mi | 66 | 28.0% | 60.0% | +28.6 | 0.2% |
| Daniel Phelan Language Academy | 2.2 mi | 64 | 33.4% | 62.6% | +10.3 | 0.1% |
| Studebaker Elementary | 2.6 mi | 60 | 27.9% | 52.5% | +1.1 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 33 | 25 | #4104 | 15.6% | 35.4% | 16.3% | 0.0% | -16.1pp |
| 2022 | 33 | 43 | #3275 | 12.6% | 32.3% | 45.3% | 0.3% | -3.7pp |
| 2023 | 30 | 26 | #4227 | 12.3% | 33.4% | 34.6% | 0.0% | -11.3pp |
| 2024 | 38 | 40 | #3456 | 15.7% | 38.4% | 26.0% | 0.1% | -8.7pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 50 | #2862 | 20.0% | 46.2% | 25.7% | 0.3% | -7.6pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.4% | 24.9% | +10.5pp |
| Male | 18.3% | 27.6% | +9.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.3% | 26.8% | +10.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 13.3% | 40.6% | +27.3pp |
| English Learners | 18.4% | 25.0% | +6.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 18.4% | 28.9% | +10.5pp |
| All Students | 16.4% | 26.3% | +9.9pp |
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