Math
18%Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced
Public elementary school
Meridian Elementary
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29% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 18% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.
Data sources · Methodology · State tests: 2025
Contact
Phone(530) 696-2604
DistrictMeridian Elementary
PrincipalChristopher Meyer
GradesTK-8
Enrollment78 students
English
29%Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced
Students
78Total enrollment
Chronic absence
13%Students absent 10% or more of school days
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What do the results tell us?
2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · weighted by students tested within each subject.
Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →
Share at Proficient or Advanced
● Math┄ English
Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.
Exact annual results
| Year | Math | English |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | — | — |
| 2022 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17% | 25% |
| 2024 | — | — |
| 2025 | 18% | 29% |
Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.
How achievement is distributed
AdvancedStandard Exceeded
12%ProficientStandard Met
6%DevelopingStandard Nearly Met
12%MinimalStandard Not Met
71%AdvancedStandard Exceeded
0%ProficientStandard Met
29%DevelopingStandard Nearly Met
12%MinimalStandard Not Met
59%Achievement-level percentages are not percentiles. “Developing” here is a test achievement level, separate from the SchoolScope performance band with the same name.
Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2023 to 2025
Has stayed near the 18th percentile since 2023.
Most rating sites would stop at “24% proficient” and call it done. Meridian deserves a closer read. Three in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — 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.
61 tested · 1 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked
Meridian Elementary scores 24 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 18th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
ELAOrange(Declined Significantly)MathRed(Declined Significantly)
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25
One in five of students here meet the standard. 6% clear it by a lot.
ELA26% met or exceeded
Exceeded 2%Met 25%Nearly Met 21%Not Met 52%
Math18% met or exceeded
Exceeded 3%Met 15%Nearly Met 20%Not Met 62%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2023–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 24 | 6% | 24% | — | 12.7% | 2.0% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 39 | 21% | 43% | — | 17.9% | 1.6% |
This schoolCA avg
Scope2439
% Exceeded6%21%
% Met+24%43%
Growth——
Absence12.7%17.9%
Suspension2.0%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25
California's own growth model places it near the 1st percentile of elementary schools.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.
— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.
California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −33 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 1st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.1st pctile · −33 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −34 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 1st percentile of 7,518 reported schools.1st pctile · −34 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field
Students & opportunity
Who shares in the school’s results?
Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25
How every group of students does here
Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 16% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 16%, district —, state 43%16%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 25%, district 25%, state 32%25% · +9 vs school
MaleMale: this school 15%, district 15%, state 42%15% · −1 vs school
7 of 10 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade
Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
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The state's growth model, by student group
California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California elementary school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.
Reading
Low-income students40 studentsLow-income students, reading: −34 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 40 students.−34 pts · −34 vs typical
English Only37 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −34 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.−34 pts · −37 vs typical
Math
Low-income students40 studentsLow-income students, math: −29 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 40 students.−29 pts · −28 vs typical
English Only37 studentsEnglish Only, math: −34 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.−34 pts · −35 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted
— 3 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.
The daily experience
What is it like to be a student here?
Students per teacher
Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.
Teacher experience
Average teacher experience in the published staffing record. It does not measure individual teacher effectiveness.
Chronically absent
The share of students absent for at least 10% of their enrolled school days. Attendance reflects both school and out-of-school circumstances.
The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25
About 26 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Students per teacher26 · district 27
Teaching staff4 teachers
Avg. experience4.5 years
Fully credentialed75%
First-year teachers25%
Intern / emergency permit25.0%
PrincipalChristopher Meyer
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25
Kids here show up more, and get suspended more, than the state average.
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (18.2% vs 5.9%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 12.7%, district 12.3%, state 17.9%12.7% · −5.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 2.0%, district —, state 1.6%2.0% · +0.4pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–65.9%
Grades 7–818.2%
TK/K7.7%
Resources & neighborhood
What sits behind the school experience?
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What gets spent · FY 2024–25
It spends $8,297 per student, less than the California average.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
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.
$988 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.
Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $8,297, CA average $14,491$8,297 · spent at this school
Federal share$988 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$17,535 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 50%Instruction support 24%Student services 5%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 13%
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$14,016 per pupil
2019$16,054 per pupil
2018$22,455 per pupil
2017$914 per pupil
2016$925 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024
Three in four of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Worth knowing
At 78 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 8% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Hispanic or Latino44.9% · district 29.2% · CA 56.1%
White42.3% · district 32.7% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.3% · district 8.8% · CA 10.2%
Other11.5% · district 13.1% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch76.9% · CA 64%
Median income$78K · CA $85K
Median home value$336K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+21% · CA 35%
ZIP population680
Median age46 years
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Culture & philosophy
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2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.
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| School | Type | Performance band | Advanced | Proficient or Advanced | Distance | Select |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Elementary | Public | Needs Support | 6% | 24% | School being viewed |
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Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is Meridian Elementary a good elementary school?
Meridian Elementary has a Scope Score of 24 out of 100, placing it in the 18th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #4,697 statewide. 5.9% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 15.5 percentage points below the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Meridian Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 23.5% of students at Meridian Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 5.9% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 17.7% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 5.9% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 34 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Meridian Elementary rank in California?
Meridian Elementary ranks #4,697 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 18th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Meridian Elementary?
12.7% of students at Meridian Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 2.0%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Meridian Elementary compare to other schools in Meridian?
Meridian Elementary scores 24/100 (18th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 78 students. Use the schools in Meridian page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
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How the Scope Score is calculated
On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.
What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25
The 5 things our score weighs
| What we weigh | Here | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 5.9% | 21.4% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 23.5% | 42.7% | 23% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 12.7% | 17.9% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.0% | 1.6% | 5% |
| EL proficiency (ELPAC) | 0.0% | 18.0% | 5% |
Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built
A closer look at the evidence
Meridian Elementary: reading the evidence
Meridian posts low test scores — and attendance holds near the state average — families haven't checked out. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.
Explore the underlying data →Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
Meridian Elementary is ranked #4,697 statewide.
01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 5.9% | 21.4% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 23.5% | 42.7% | 23% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 12.7% | 17.9% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.0% | 1.6% | 5% |
| EL proficiency (ELPAC) | 0.0% | 18.0% | 5% |
- Exceeded standard
- ↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 37 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
- Met or exceeded
- ↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 37 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
- Chronic absenteeism
- ↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 59 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 8.4pp lower vs 2023
- Suspension rate
- ↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 47 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 1.3pp lower vs 2023
- EL proficiency (ELPAC)
- ↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 36 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ShowHide table 02 — By grade & subgroup
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 17 | 0% | 29% | 12% | 59% | 29% | −18 |
| Grade 6 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 11 | 0% | 9% | 18% | 73% | 9% | −39 |
| Grade 8 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 17 | 12% | 6% | 12% | 71% | 18% | −17 |
| Grade 6 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 11 | 0% | 0% | 18% | 82% | 0% | −34 |
| Grade 8 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 26 | 0% | 8% | 62% | 31% |
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.
03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Elementary ← | — | 24 | 5.9% | 23.5% | — | — | 2.0% |
| California average | — | 39 | 21.4% | 42.7% | −2.9pp | — | 1.6% |
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20 | 16 | #4794 | 0.0% | 20.8% | 21.1% | 3.3% | — |
| 2025 | 24 | 18 | #4697 | 5.9% | 23.5% | 12.7% | 2.0% | — |
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
What we can't show
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — No subgroup comparison could be shown for this school this year — either its group sizes fall under CDE's 15-student reporting floor, or district/state comparison data wasn't available for its groups.
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 10.0% | 7.7% | -2.3pp |
| Male | 6.7% | 8.2% | +1.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.5% | 7.9% | -1.6pp |
| White | 4.0% | 7.7% | +3.7pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 11.1% | 7.0% | -4.1pp |
| All Students | 8.0% | 8.0% | +0.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 6.3% | — |
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −33 | 49 | Minimal | −34 | 49 | Minimal |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −34 | 40 | Minimal | −29 | 40 | Minimal |
| English Only | −34 | 37 | not categorised | −34 | 37 | not categorised |
| White | −25 | 26 | Minimal | −25 | 26 | Minimal |
| Hispanic or Latino | −39 | 18 | Minimal | −29 | 18 | Minimal |
| English Learner | −24 | 12 | Minimal | −22 | 12 | Minimal |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-27
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