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Mission Education Center

San Francisco, CA · Grades TK-5 · 105 students · San Francisco Unified

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0% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 0% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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PrincipalAlbert Maldonado
GradesTK-5
Enrollment105 students

Math

0%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

0%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

105

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

28%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

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

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 0%2022: 0%2023: 0%2024: 0%2025: 0%2019: 0%2023: 0%2025: 0%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 0%2022: 0%2023: 0%2024: 0%2025: 0%2019: 0%2023: 0%2025: 0%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
20190%0%
20220%—
20230%0%
20240%—
20250%0%

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 stayed near the 1st percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “0% proficient” and call it done. Mission Education Center deserves a closer read. Three in five 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.

29 tested · 1 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Mission Education Center scores 11 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 1st percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 0% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 6 of 1002022 · 2nd percentile · Scope Score 12 of 1002023 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 9 of 1002024 · 1st percentile · Scope Score 12 of 1002025 · 1st percentile · Scope Score 11 of 100
MathRed(Maintained)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade201920232025
Grade 40%0%—
Grade 50%0%0%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 30%0%0%0%—
Grade 40%0%0%0%0%
Grade 50%0%0%0%0%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

0% of students here meet the standard. 0% clear it by a lot.

ELA0% met or exceeded
Exceeded 0%Met 0%Nearly Met 0%Not Met 100%
Math0% met or exceeded
Exceeded 0%Met 0%Nearly Met 9%Not Met 91%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school110%0%—28.0%1.6%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1139
% Exceeded0%21%
% Met+0%43%
Growth——
Absence28.0%17.9%
Suspension1.6%1.6%

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

How every group of students does here

At Mission Education Center in San Francisco, 0.0% of hispanic students met or exceeded the Math standard in 2025, compared to 17.8% district-wide and 25.7% statewide. Mission Education Center trails its district average for hispanic students by 17.8 percentage points in Math. Other subgroups: English Learner students (0.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 26 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 0% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 0%, district —, state 43%0%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 0%, district 22%, state 32%0% · +0 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 0%, district 10%, state 11%0% · +0 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 0%, district 36%, state 32%0% · +0 vs school
HomelessHomeless: this school 0%, district 22%, state 22%0% · +0 vs school
FemaleFemale: too few students to report‹11
MaleMale: too few students to report‹11
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: too few students to report‹11
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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No student-group growth record is available for this school in this data release.

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 18 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher18 · district 22
Teaching staff7 teachers
Avg. experience15.4 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalAlbert Maldonado
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Teacher salary schedule$69,525 – $131,654
Principal salary$150,963 – $163,648
Superintendent salary$328,879

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended less, than the state average.

28.0% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 17.9% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — the data can't say why.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 28.0%, district 25.8%, state 17.9%28.0% · +10.1pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.6%, district —, state 1.6%1.6% · −0.0pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–631.0%
TK/K35.0%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $27,766 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$629 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: $27,766, CA average $14,491$27,766 · spent at this school
Federal share$629 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$26,762 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 60%Instruction support 12%Student services 15%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 7%Other 1%

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$17,416 per pupil
2019$17,139 per pupil
2018$17,228 per pupil
2017$13,640 per pupil
2016$11,532 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Three in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 105 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), 0% 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 Latino74.3% · district 36.7% · CA 56.1%
White12.4% · district 13.1% · CA 19.9%
Asian2.9% · district 27.7% · CA 10.2%
Other10.5% · district 15.1% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch64.8% · CA 64%
Median income$199K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.71M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+77% · CA 35%
ZIP population28,504
Median age40 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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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

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

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Mission Education CenterPublicNeeds Support0%0%School being viewed
Chinese Immersion School at DeAvilaPublicStrong59%81%2.0 mi
Yu (Alice Fong) ElementaryPublicStrong56%82%2.4 mi
Clarendon Alternative ElementaryPublicStrong49%72%1.6 mi
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Schools across the K–12 journey

Elementary · K–5

Middle · 6–8

Brown Jr. (Willie L) MiddlePublished boundary overlapScope Score 42/100
Giannini (A.P.) MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 63/100
Aptos MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 57/100
Francisco MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 33/100
Hoover (Herbert) MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 51/100
Denman (James) MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 26/100
Lick (James) MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 25/100
Marina MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 47/100
King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 24/100
Presidio MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 65/100
Roosevelt MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 65/100
Visitacion Valley MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 12/100
Everett MiddleAlternative · verify enrollment routeScope Score 12/100

High school · 9–12

Marshall (Thurgood) HighScope 25estimated path

The road from this school ends at Marshall (Thurgood) High, which sent 5 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 5 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Marshall (Thurgood) High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 57% of Marshall (Thurgood) High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

5 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 5 AP subjects taught → full record on Marshall (Thurgood) High's page
Source: UC & College Board

Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.

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Worth a school visit

Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

  • Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
  • Ask how English learners are supported, and what changes for them after they reclassify.
  • 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.
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Mission Education Center a good elementary school?
Mission Education Center has a Scope Score of 11 out of 100, placing it in the 1st percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #5,663 statewide. 0.0% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 21.4 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 Mission Education Center's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 0.0% of students at Mission Education Center met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 0.0% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 0.0% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 0.0% 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. 40 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Mission Education Center rank in California?
Mission Education Center ranks #5,663 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 1st 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 Mission Education Center?
28.0% of students at Mission Education Center are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 1.6%, 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 Mission Education Center compare to other schools in San Francisco?
Mission Education Center scores 11/100 (1st 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 105 students. Use the schools in San Francisco page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Mission Education Center serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Mission Education Center in San Francisco, 0.0% of hispanic students met or exceeded the Math standard in 2025, compared to 17.8% district-wide and 25.7% statewide. Mission Education Center trails its district average for hispanic students by 17.8 percentage points in Math. Other subgroups: English Learner students (0.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 26 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.
What middle school does Mission Education Center feed into?
By attendance boundary, Mission Education Center is zoned to Brown Jr. (Willie L) Middle. Brown Jr. (Willie L) Middle has a Scope Score of 42 out of 100. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education's School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary is also not a placement guarantee: magnet, charter, open-enrollment and inter-district transfer options mean students from one school often continue to several different ones. Confirm your address with the district before making an enrollment or housing decision. Data source: NCES School Attendance Boundary Survey, analyzed by SchoolScope.

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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

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard0.0%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded0.0%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.6%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

Mission Education Center: reading the evidence

Mission Education Center posts low test scores — and test scores are one lens among several. 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.

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.

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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.

Mission Education Center is ranked #5,663 statewide · #72 of 74 in San Francisco Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard0.0%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded0.0%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.6%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)0.0%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 32 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 21 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 17.9% · index 34 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 7.0pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 50 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.1pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 35 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 38——————
Grade 47——————
Grade 5140%0%0%100%0%−48
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 39——————
Grade 4120%0%17%83%0%−41
Grade 5140%0%0%100%0%−35

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
Schoolwide130%0%0%100%

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
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Mission Education Center ←—110.0%0.0%——1.6%
Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila2 mi8259.2%81.0%+25.6pp—0.1%
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary2.4 mi7655.5%81.7%+2.6pp—0.1%
Clarendon Alternative Elementary1.6 mi6748.7%71.9%−2.3pp—0.5%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
201960#54730.0%0.0%33.3%1.4%+0.0pp
2022122#56020.0%0.0%50.3%0.5%+0.0pp
202390#56740.0%0.0%56.3%0.4%+0.0pp
2024121#56370.0%0.0%35.0%0.6%+0.0pp
2025111#56630.0%0.0%28.0%1.6%—
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
What we can't show
  • — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female44.9%44.4%-0.5pp
Male36.1%25.9%-10.2pp
Hispanic/Latino41.4%42.9%+1.5pp
Students with Disabilities71.4%50.0%-21.4pp
English Learners43.0%36.9%-6.1pp
Homeless55.2%31.3%-23.9pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged47.3%39.0%-8.3pp
All Students40.1%35.5%-4.6pp
White—5.6%—
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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 2026-09-18

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