Independent charter school · Lompoc Unified

Manzanita Public Charter — Rating & test scores

991 Mountain View Boulevard, Vandenberg Air Force Base · 483 students · Grades TK–8

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Scope Score 77

SolidScope Score · 60th percentile. Higher than 60 in 100 of the 5,726 California public elementary schools we score.

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

Near California in English (reading and writing) and math: 48% and 44% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5, spring 2026, against 46% and 42%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 176
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

This rating covers grades 3–5. Manzanita Public Charter teaches TK–8.

Overview

Is Manzanita Public Charter a good elementary school?

Solid. Manzanita Public Charter is higher than most California elementary schools on test results, progress in English and attendance. Manzanita Public Charter is lower than most on progress in math.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced5948%
Math, Proficient or Advanced6044%
English, Advanced7331%
Math, Advanced6019%

Progress in a year, 2025

English52+3 pts
Math36−2 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance818 in 100
Manzanita Public Charter’s place among California elementary schools, out of 100Lompoc Unified’s other elementary schoolsBar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

41 of 545 students missed 10% or more of school days in 2025–26, against 20 in 100 at the average Lompoc Unified elementary school.

Each bar is Manzanita Public Charter’s place among 5,726 California public elementary 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 3–5. 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.

Source for the sentence
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2025–26. All students counted for chronic absence (CDE’s eligible enrollment): 545. District and California figures are averages of school rates (10 Lompoc Unified schools; 5,726 scored California elementary schools), our calculation.

In its own words

What does Manzanita Public Charter say about itself?

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

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Progress

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

About the same, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4–7 scored 3 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Average. In math, they scored 2 points lower, which the state calls Average.

English

+3

points higher 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

Hispanic or Latino115+3 points
Low-income960 points
White63+3 points
Students with disabilities40−6 points
English learners29−3 points

Math

−2

points 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

Hispanic or Latino115−4 points
Low-income96−5 points
White63+2 points
Students with disabilities40−4 points
English learners29−4 points

Grades 4–7, 2025, 200 students with scores in both years. Faded rows have fewer than 40 students. 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 3 points above that expected score, and in math 2 points 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 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 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 elementary standardized cohort gain: approximately 33rd 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.

Nearby

How does it compare with schools nearby?

0 of the 2 elementary schools nearby have a higher Scope Score than Manzanita Public Charter. Each school is compared with every California elementary school.

Scope Score

3 elementary schools within 3.6 miles, highest score first. Under each name is how the school takes students.

  1. Manzanita Public CharterScope Score 7760th
  2. Buena VistaNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7759th
  3. CrestviewNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7337th
Lompoc Unified

Scope Score from California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 3–5. Distance is a straight line from this campus and is not an attendance boundary. See these schools on the map

Scores and family income

Further right, more students are from low-income families. Higher up, more students scored Proficient or Advanced in English.

50%0%25%50%75%100%

English results: California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 3–5. Low-income is the share of students who qualified for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes.

Schools like it

How does Manzanita Public Charter compare with schools like it?

Manzanita Public Charter’s Scope Score is 77. 624 California elementary schools, counting Manzanita Public Charter, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 80. Manzanita Public Charter’s result is higher than 188 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 624

  1. Students from low-income families: 41%

    Scope Score 97Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 36%

    Scope Score 97Strong · 99th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 36%

    Scope Score 96Strong · 99th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 41%

    Scope Score 95Strong · 98th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 38%

    Scope Score 95Strong · 98th percentile

624 California public elementary schools where 34% to 46% 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 elementary school we score where 34% to 46% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Manzanita Public Charter’s share. The count includes Manzanita Public Charter. 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 went from 50% to 48% and math from 40% to 44%.

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

Grades 3–5. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202643%46%48%Manzanita Public CharterThis school46%CaliforniaCalifornia32%Lompoc UnifiedDistrict

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202628%33%44%Manzanita Public CharterThis school42%CaliforniaCalifornia22%Lompoc UnifiedDistrict

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Lompoc Unified’s line combines its 10 elementary schools we score (our calculation). Faint lines are its other schools. 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. Lompoc Unified’s figure weights each school by the students it tested.

English, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringManzanita Public CharterLompoc UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201746%43%45%181
201839%44%49%148
201947%44%50%179
202249%34%45%187
202352%32%44%187
202452%34%45%188
202550%33%46%203
202648%32%46%176
Math, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringManzanita Public CharterLompoc UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201733%28%40%181
201830%29%42%151
201942%33%44%179
202234%23%38%187
202337%25%40%187
202442%24%41%188
202540%24%41%203
202644%22%42%176

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Near California in both subjects.

English

48%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

31211731
Lompoc Unified32%California46%

Math

44%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

33232519
Lompoc Unified22%California42%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 48% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 44% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 3–5 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).

How do the middle grades do?

Well above California in English; near it in math. In grades 6 and 7, spring 2026, 60% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 37% in math, against 49% and 37% across California.

English

60%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

17233822
Lompoc Unified36%California49%

Math

37%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

34291819
Lompoc Unified23%California37%
Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced47%51%47%
Advanced27%37%29%
Proficient20%14%18%
Developing level24%20%20%
Minimal29%29%33%
Tested514976
California44%46%49%
Difference+3+5−2
English, grades 6 and 7: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7
Proficient or Advanced57%62%
Advanced19%25%
Proficient38%37%
Developing level22%25%
Minimal21%13%
Tested7769
California48%51%
Difference+9+11

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 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced61%41%34%
Advanced24%22%14%
Proficient37%19%20%
Developing level17%26%25%
Minimal22%33%41%
Tested514976
California47%42%37%
Difference+14−1−3
Math, grades 6 and 7: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7
Proficient or Advanced39%35%
Advanced22%16%
Proficient17%19%
Developing level27%32%
Minimal34%33%
Tested7769
California37%38%
Difference+2−3

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 3–5 · This school31%17%21%31%176
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
English, grades 3–5 · Lompoc Unified14%18%23%45%2,021
Math, grades 3–5 · This school19%25%23%33%176
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701
Math, grades 3–5 · Lompoc Unified7%15%27%51%2,022
English, grades 6 and 7 · This school22%38%23%17%146
English, grades 6 and 7 · California19%30%23%28%832,685
English, grades 6 and 7 · Lompoc Unified10%26%24%40%1,356
Math, grades 6 and 7 · This school19%18%29%34%146
Math, grades 6 and 7 · California21%16%24%39%833,328
Math, grades 6 and 7 · Lompoc Unified10%13%25%52%1,351

Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined: 176 tested in English, 176 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?

Hispanic or Latino students are the largest group here, at 55% of students. 41 of 545 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

8in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (41 of 545 students).

At the average Lompoc Unified elementary school: 20 in 100. At the average California elementary school: 17 in 100.

Suspensions: 1.8% of students were suspended at least once (10 of 551). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Students, 2024–25

483

students in grades TK–8.

Hispanic or Latino 55%White 32%Two or more races 10%Black or African American 2%

Family income

40%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 193 of 483. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

19

teachers, with 9 years of experience on average.

11% were in their first year.

89% 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 (16 of 29 students).

Lompoc Unified: 44%. 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
Grades 4–6
8 in 100 students in grades 4–6 were chronically absent (17 of 213).
Grades 7–8
9 of 75 students in grades 7–8 were chronically absent.

Our records hold no figure for Grades TK–3.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
Hispanic or Latino55%
White32%
Two or more races10%
Black or African American2%
Asian—
Filipino—
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: 16 of 18 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 Lompoc Unified.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • Military families64 tested61%California 41%
  • White102 tested59%California 53%
  • Hispanic or Latino175 tested28%California 29%
  • Low-income137 tested27%California 29%

59% of White students scored Proficient or Advanced in math (grades 3–7, spring 2026), against 38% for the same group across Lompoc Unified. Hispanic or Latino and low-income students also scored well above the same groups across Lompoc Unified; the chart gives their figures. Every group’s English results are in the table below.

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–7 math, 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 3–7 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Lompoc Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 137 tested
English42%+1626%+537%
Math27%+1215%−229%
Hispanic or Latino · 175 tested
English42%+1527%+438%
Math28%+1216%−129%
White · 102 tested
English68%+1949%+860%
Math59%+2138%+653%
Military families · 64 tested · grades 4–7 only
English69%+1257%+1851%
Math61%+2140%+2041%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Lompoc Unified, and across California. No group that is behind across California does 10 or more points better here.

Students with disabilities, 52 tested: no rate for grades 3, 4 and 7 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander and homeless students, students of two or more races, 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 tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Manzanita Public Charter. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
  2. The questions are about the school, never a person.No question asks about a named teacher or staff member.
  3. Answers are never part of the Scope Score.They sit beside the state’s records and do not change a school’s score.

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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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The school day

What is the school day like?

Manzanita Public Charter has transitional kindergarten (TK). Our records do not hold school hours or before- and after-school care yet. Ask the office.

Transitional kindergarten (TK), 2025–26

20

TK students in 2025–26.

TK is California’s free public program for four-year-olds.

TK count: California Department of Education, Census Day enrollment, 2025–26. Find TK schools near you

The neighborhood

What is the area around Manzanita Public Charter like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 93437. They are not figures for the families at Manzanita Public Charter.

Typical household income in a year

$84,167

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 93437.

People who live in this ZIP code
3,477
Typical age
25.1 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
48%

What you can do

Who can act on Manzanita Public Charter’s results?

Manzanita Public Charter’s own board decides its plan.

State support

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

Reading screening in kindergarten through grade 2

California law requires schools to screen kindergartners through second graders for reading difficulties every year, with some exceptions. You get notice at least 15 days before, results within 45 days, and can opt out in writing.

Kindergartners can’t be screened before the 91st school day; transitional kindergarten isn’t covered.

If screening shows your child may be at risk for reading difficulties, the school must provide supports. That result isn’t a diagnosis, and screening can’t be used to delay a special-education evaluation.

Ask how many K–2 students screening found at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help.

California Education Code § 53008. Source 

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 5 questions to Manzanita Public Charter. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What changes for a student who falls behind in math?2 points lower in math than California students who had the same score the year before, grades 4–7, 2025 (200 students)

Before you apply

  1. Which grades are accepting applications, and who is eligible?
  2. What are the deadlines, enrollment priorities, and lottery or waitlist steps?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. What transportation and before- or after-school options are available?

Getting in

How do I get in?

Ask Manzanita Public Charter how it admits students. Charter schools set their own enrollment steps and dates.

Where it is

Where is Manzanita Public Charter?

Address
991 Mountain View Boulevard, Vandenberg Air Force Base 93437Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Suzanne NicastroAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated September 17, 2025.

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 6 common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Manzanita Public Charter how it admits students. Charter schools set their own enrollment steps and dates. See the details ↓

Is Manzanita Public Charter a good elementary school?

Manzanita Public Charter has a Scope Score of 77. It scored higher than 60 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools (Solid, 60th percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 8 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 20 in 100 at the average Lompoc Unified elementary school. 1.8% of students (10 of 551) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. See the details ↓

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

About the same, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4–7 scored 3 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Average. In math, they scored 2 points lower, which the state calls Average.

  • Included in this measure: 200 students

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 42% of low-income students in grades 3–7 at Manzanita Public Charter in Vandenberg Air Force Base scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 37% for the same group across California. 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 #2,260 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score · #1 of 10 in Lompoc Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math26%5442%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math47%5323%
5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children)+66 scale-score pts3420%
Chronically absent8 in 100645%
Suspension rate1.8% (10 of 551)495%
English learners: top level38%815%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary 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
2025–267760#2260California elementary schools · 5,726 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)
2018–19not on filenot on file+4
2021–22not on filenot on file+8
2022–23not on filenot on file+3
2023–249 in 1001.9% (9 of 469)−18
2024–256 in 1001.0% (5 of 506)−2
2025–268 in 1001.8% (10 of 551)−13

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

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 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 · English32227%53%
2026 · Math32219%41%
2025 · English27826%49%
2025 · Math27818%38%
2024 · English25227%53%
2024 · Math25220%43%
2023 · English25028%54%
2023 · Math25020%41%
2022 · English24622%48%
2022 · Math24614%35%
2019 · English23424%45%
2019 · Math23417%38%
2018 · English20814%45%
2018 · Math21111%31%
2017 · English23920%48%
2017 · Math23913%34%

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 3 · English5143%
2025 · Grade 4 · English7547%
2025 · Grade 5 · English7757%
2025 · Grade 6 · English7547%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math5151%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math7541%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math7732%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math7532%
2024 · Grade 3 · English7362%
2024 · Grade 4 · English5046%
2024 · Grade 5 · English6546%
2024 · Grade 6 · English6456%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math7353%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math5036%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math6534%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math6445%
2023 · Grade 3 · English5345%
2023 · Grade 4 · English6946%
2023 · Grade 5 · English6565%
2023 · Grade 6 · English6357%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math5347%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math6932%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math6534%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math6352%
2022 · Grade 3 · English6837%
2022 · Grade 4 · English6357%
2022 · Grade 5 · English5654%
2022 · Grade 6 · English5947%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math6829%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math6344%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math5629%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math5939%
2019 · Grade 3 · English5942%
2019 · Grade 4 · English5351%
2019 · Grade 5 · English6749%
2019 · Grade 6 · English5538%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math5941%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math5343%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math6742%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math5527%
2018 · Grade 3 · English4529%
2018 · Grade 4 · English4738%
2018 · Grade 5 · English5648%
2018 · Grade 6 · English6058%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math4734%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math4833%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math5623%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math6035%
2017 · Grade 3 · English6047%
2017 · Grade 4 · English5934%
2017 · Grade 5 · English6258%
2017 · Grade 6 · English5853%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math6043%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math5922%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math6234%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math5836%

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
Schoolwide7620%16%55%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-income13742%+16+5
Hispanic or Latino17542%+15+4
White10268%+19+8
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+3200Average−2200Average
English-only students+4168not categorized−1168not categorized
Hispanic or Latino+3115Average−4115Average
Low-income096Average−596Average
White+363Average+263Average
Students with disabilities−640Moderate−440Average
English learners−329Average−429Average
Two or more races−219Average+419Average
Recently reclassified as fluent in English+118not categorized−518not categorized
English learners only−1111not categorized−211not 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 4–7. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 5 against the same school’s grade 3 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 5 in 2026 against grade 3 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 3
37%
exceeded standard · 62% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 73 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 5
29%
Advanced · 47% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 76 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 73 (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+3 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–7

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

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

All students, grades 4–7

200 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, English: +3 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math−2 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–7

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

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

All students, grades 4–7

200 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, math: −2 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary 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 elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 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 4–7, 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 · 6 in 100 → 2025–26 · 8 in 100 · +2 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 1.0% (5 of 506) → 2025–26 · 1.8% (10 of 551) · +0.8 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female—8 in 100—
Male—7 in 100—
Black or African American—2 of 11—
Hispanic or Latino—8 in 100—
Two or more races—3 of 53—
White—6 in 100—
Students with disabilities—8 of 87—
English learners—0 of 35—
Low-income—9 in 100—
All students—8 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$13,651 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 9,231 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

District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,864 per ADA

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

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 60%Instruction support 11%Student services 12%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 2%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$92,180,02659.80%60%
Instruction support$17,644,68811.45%11%
Student services$18,482,64511.99%12%
Administration$9,893,8806.42%6%
Buildings & maintenance$13,665,3908.87%9%
Other$2,282,1661.48%2%
Total$154,148,794100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $154,148,794 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$13,651 per pupil
2020$11,944 per pupil
2019$12,456 per pupil
2018$10,801 per pupil
2017$10,324 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 93437 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 93437 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$84,167
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48%
ZIP-area population3,477
Median age25.1 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 93437 →

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