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Miller's Hill

Shingle Springs, CA · Grades 4-8 · 77 students · Latrobe

High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.

87% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 71% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictLatrobe
PrincipalDave Scroggins
Grades4-8
Enrollment77 students

Math

71%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

87%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

77

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

11%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · 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

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 67%2022: 51%2023: 70%2024: 49%2025: 71%2019: 87%2022: 69%2023: 73%2024: 69%2025: 87%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 67%2022: 51%2023: 70%2024: 49%2025: 71%2019: 87%2022: 69%2023: 73%2024: 69%2025: 87%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201967%87%
202251%69%
202370%73%
202449%69%
202571%87%

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.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Has held the 95th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “80% proficient” and call it done. Miller's Hill deserves a closer read. One in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

The headline number: 43.2% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 17.2%.

79 tested · 2 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Miller's Hill scores 74 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 95th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 80% of students meet the standard today, above the 75% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 88th percentile · Scope Score 62 of 1002022 · 87th percentile · Scope Score 59 of 1002023 · 89th percentile · Scope Score 62 of 1002024 · 88th percentile · Scope Score 59 of 1002025 · 95th percentile · Scope Score 74 of 100
ELABlue(Increased Significantly)MathBlue(Increased Significantly)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 4100%55%76%73%63%
Grade 590%78%82%76%75%
Grade 691%70%79%69%92%
Grade 775%76%52%67%—
Grade 882%68%67%69%84%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 4100%27%78%59%63%
Grade 575%65%55%41%70%
Grade 664%48%67%46%75%
Grade 765%76%61%63%—
Grade 871%55%73%50%68%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Three in four of students here meet the standard. Two in five clear it by a lot.

ELA80% met or exceeded
Exceeded 46%Met 34%Nearly Met 14%Not Met 6%
Math71% met or exceeded
Exceeded 35%Met 35%Nearly Met 22%Not Met 8%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school7443%80%—11.1%2.8%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%—18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope7439
% Exceeded43%17%
% Met+80%40%
Growth——
Absence11.1%18.1%
Suspension2.8%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 85th percentile of middle 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 above the middle of California middle 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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: +9 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 76th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.76th pctile · +9 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +21 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 93rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.93rd pctile · +21 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

At Miller's Hill in Shingle Springs, 71.1% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 71.1% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. Miller's Hill outperforms its district average for white students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (64.4% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 45 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 73% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 73%, district —, state 40%73%
WhiteWhite: this school 68%, district 68%, state 56%68% · −5 vs school
MaleMale: this school 64%, district 64%, state 42%64% · −9 vs school

10 of 13 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 middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only69 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +13 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 69 students.+13 pts · +13 vs typical
White55 studentsWhite, reading: +13 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 55 students.+13 pts · +13 vs typical
Math
English Only69 studentsEnglish Only, math: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 69 students.+23 pts · +26 vs typical
White55 studentsWhite, math: +22 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 55 students.+22 pts · +21 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 1 more group is 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.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 15 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher15 · district 15
Teaching staff7 teachers
Avg. experience11.7 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalDave Scroggins
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (10.3% vs 5.8%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 11.1%, district 11.1%, state 18.1%11.1% · −7.0pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 2.8%, district —, state 3.6%2.8% · −0.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–65.8%
Grades 7–810.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $25,820 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$319 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: $25,820, CA average $14,491$25,820 · spent at this school
Federal share$319 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$27,285 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 52%Instruction support 14%Student services 5%Administration 11%Buildings & maintenance 17%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$16,547 per pupil
2019$15,490 per pupil
2018$15,648 per pupil
2017$15,562 per pupil
2016$13,413 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

One 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 77 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 69% 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 Latino13.0% · district 16.7% · CA 56.1%
White74.0% · district 69.7% · CA 19.9%
Asian2.6% · district 1.5% · CA 10.2%
Other10.4% · district 11.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch27.3% · CA 64%
Median income$122K · CA $85K
Median home value$723K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+40% · CA 35%
ZIP population30,065
Median age45 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Worth a school visit

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Miller's Hill a good middle school?
Miller's Hill has a Scope Score of 74 out of 100, placing it in the 95th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #104 statewide. 43.2% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 26.0 percentage points above the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 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 Miller's Hill's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 79.8% of students at Miller's Hill met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 43.2% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 36.6% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 43.2% 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. 62 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Miller's Hill rank in California?
Miller's Hill ranks #104 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 95th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 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 Miller's Hill?
11.1% of students at Miller's Hill are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 2.8%. 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 Miller's Hill compare to other schools in Shingle Springs?
Miller's Hill scores 74/100 (95th percentile) among California middle 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 77 students. Use the schools in Shingle Springs page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Miller's Hill serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Miller's Hill in Shingle Springs, 71.1% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 71.1% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. Miller's Hill outperforms its district average for white students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (64.4% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 45 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

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

How far the top scorers get carries this score.

43.2% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 17.2%.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard43.2%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded79.8%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism11.1%18.1%5%
Suspension rate2.8%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)-7.0pp+1.5pp—

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

Miller's Hill: reading the evidence

Miller's Hill posts 43.2% exceeding the standard — versus 17.2% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.

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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.

Miller's Hill is ranked #104 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard43.2%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded79.8%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism11.1%18.1%5%
Suspension rate2.8%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)-7.0pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 17.2% · index 77 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 40.0% · index 80 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 60 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.1pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 53 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 1.8pp lower vs 2024
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↓ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 41932%32%32%5%63%+19
Grade 52065%10%15%10%75%+27
Grade 61233%58%8%0%92%+46
Grade 79——————
Grade 81932%53%5%11%84%+38
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 41911%53%26%11%63%+22
Grade 52030%40%25%5%70%+35
Grade 61250%25%25%0%75%+41
Grade 79——————
Grade 81958%11%16%16%68%+36

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)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide3933%36%31%0%

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
White4571.1%+0+9
03Nearest middle 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
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Miller's Hill ←—7443.2%79.8%−7.0pp—2.8%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20196288#23332.8%74.6%6.5%3.8%-0.8pp
20225987#28329.3%65.5%32.2%0.7%+2.7pp
20236289#23132.3%66.5%11.9%4.9%-2.9pp
20245988#26435.4%60.7%11.2%4.6%+1.9pp
20257495#10443.2%79.8%11.1%2.8%-7.0pp
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.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female3.4%5.6%+2.2pp
Male5.6%8.9%+3.3pp
White6.5%9.8%+3.3pp
Students with Disabilities7.7%——
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged0.0%11.5%+11.5pp
All Students4.8%7.4%+2.6pp
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
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+975Accelerated+2175Exceptional
English Only+1369not categorised+2369not categorised
White+1355Accelerated+2255Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−224Average+1224Accelerated

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=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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