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Monroe Elementary

Fresno, CA · Grades TK-8 · 150 students · Caruthers Unified

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29% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 36% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

36%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

29%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

150

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

16%

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%2025: 36%2025: 29%20250%25%50%75%100%2025: 36%2025: 29%2025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
202536%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.

Annual results and the full academic record
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in four of students here meet the standard. 8% clear it by a lot.

ELA42% met or exceeded
Exceeded 13%Met 30%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 31%
Math28% met or exceeded
Exceeded 11%Met 17%Nearly Met 22%Not Met 50%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2025–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school258%31%—15.6%3.9%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2539
% Exceeded8%21%
% Met+31%43%
Growth——
Absence15.6%17.9%
Suspension3.9%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 97th 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 above 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: +34 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 99th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.99th pctile · +34 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +23 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 95th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.95th pctile · +23 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

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard about even with the same group statewide.

At Monroe Elementary in Fresno, 40.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 44.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Monroe Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 4.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (24.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (44.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 3.6 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 81 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 35% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 35%, district —, state 43%35%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 35%, district 38%, state 32%35% · +0 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 32%, district 37%, state 32%32% · −3 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 36%, district 40%, state 44%36% · +2 vs school
MaleMale: this school 45%, district 40%, state 42%45% · +11 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 14%, district 16%, state 11%14% · −21 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: too few students to report‹11
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: too few students to report‹11
WhiteWhite: too few students to report‹11
HomelessHomeless: 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.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 9.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -0.7pp.

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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
Hispanic or Latino students68 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +34 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 68 students.+34 pts · +33 vs typical
Low-income students66 studentsLow-income students, reading: +33 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 66 students.+33 pts · +33 vs typical
English Learner42 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +27 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 42 students.+27 pts · +29 vs typical
Math
Hispanic or Latino students68 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 68 students.+21 pts · +22 vs typical
Low-income students66 studentsLow-income students, math: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 66 students.+21 pts · +22 vs typical
English Learner42 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 42 students.+23 pts · +21 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 4 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.

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 19
Teaching staff10 teachers
Avg. experience11.8 years
First-year teachers10%
PrincipalDanita Ramos
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Teacher salary schedule$59,770 – $121,971
Principal salary$147,690 – $155,348
Superintendent salary$225,000

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

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

TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 7–8 students (20.7% vs 13.5%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.

3.9% of students were suspended, versus 1.6% statewide — the data can't say why.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 15.6%, district 14.7%, state 17.9%15.6% · −2.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 3.9%, district —, state 1.6%3.9% · +2.3pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–615.6%
Grades 7–813.5%
TK/K20.7%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $30,758 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$4,783 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: $30,758, CA average $14,491$30,758 · spent at this school
Federal share$4,783 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,502 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 53%Instruction support 13%Student services 10%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 13%Other 3%

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$15,441 per pupil
2019$13,918 per pupil
2018$13,779 per pupil
2017$13,392 per pupil
2016$13,195 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Four 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 150 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), 12% 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 Latino90.0% · district 87.7% · CA 56.1%
White8.0% · district 8.3% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.3% · district 2.5% · CA 10.2%
Black0.7% · district 0.4% · CA 4.8%
Free or reduced lunch91.3% · CA 64%
Median income$72K · CA $85K
Median home value$282K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+13% · CA 35%
ZIP population24,575
Median age32 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.

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Monroe ElementaryPublicNeeds Support8%31%School being viewed
Pacific Union ElementaryPublicNeeds Support11%30%2.7 mi
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Monroe Elementary a good elementary school?
Monroe Elementary has a Scope Score of 25 out of 100, placing it in the 21st percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #4,531 statewide. 7.6% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 13.7 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 Monroe Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 31.2% of students at Monroe Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 7.6% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 23.6% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 7.6% 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. 77 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Monroe Elementary rank in California?
Monroe Elementary ranks #4,531 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 21st 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 Monroe Elementary?
15.6% of students at Monroe 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 3.9%. 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 Monroe Elementary compare to other schools in Fresno?
Monroe Elementary scores 25/100 (21st 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 150 students. Use the schools in Fresno page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Monroe Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Monroe Elementary in Fresno, 40.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 44.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Monroe Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 4.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (24.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (44.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 3.6 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 81 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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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 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard7.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded31.2%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism15.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate3.9%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)14.3%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+1.6pp-2.9pp—

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

Monroe Elementary: reading the evidence

Monroe posts low test scores — and grade 5 tests above grade 3 here this year, by 1.6pp. 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.

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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.

Monroe Elementary is ranked #4,531 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard7.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded31.2%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism15.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate3.9%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)14.3%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+1.6pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 37 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 42 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 54 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 31 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 47 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↑ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3120%25%33%42%25%−18
Grade 41414%21%7%57%36%−9
Grade 5128%25%42%25%33%−14
Grade 61527%27%27%20%53%+7
Grade 72110%29%38%24%38%−10
Grade 81414%50%14%21%64%+18
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3138%31%15%46%38%−7
Grade 4147%14%29%50%21%−20
Grade 5128%25%25%42%33%−2
Grade 61613%13%31%44%25%−9
Grade 72110%19%10%62%29%−5
Grade 81421%0%29%50%21%−11

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
Schoolwide264%8%85%4%

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
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged8140.7%−4+3
Hispanic/Latino7544.0%−2+5
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
Monroe Elementary ←—257.6%31.2%+1.6pp—3.9%
Pacific Union Elementary2.7 mi2011.3%30.3%−16.3pp—6.5%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
04Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 04 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female—18.9%—
Male—9.6%—
Hispanic/Latino—15.4%—
White—9.1%—
Students with Disabilities—10.3%—
English Learners—11.6%—
Military-Connected—26.7%—
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged—15.2%—
All Students—14.7%—
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+3471Exceptional+2371Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino+3468Exceptional+2168Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+3366Exceptional+2166Exceptional
English Learner+2742Exceptional+2342Exceptional
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+2925not categorised+2825not categorised
English Only+3219not categorised+1219not categorised
English Learners Only+2217not categorised+2017not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)+3111Exceptional+1611Accelerated

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. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. 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 2026-09-18

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