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Montalvo Elementary

Ventura, CA · Grades TK-5 · 397 students · Ventura Unified

No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.

45% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 37% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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What this means for your family

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Math

37%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

45%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

397

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

14%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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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: 51%2022: 41%2023: 39%2024: 43%2025: 37%2019: 51%2022: 46%2023: 44%2024: 40%2025: 45%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 51%2022: 41%2023: 39%2024: 43%2025: 37%2019: 51%2022: 46%2023: 44%2024: 40%2025: 45%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201951%51%
202241%46%
202339%44%
202443%40%
202537%45%

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

Slipped from the 58th to the 45th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “41% proficient” and call it done. Montalvo deserves a closer read. Two-thirds of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

188 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 42 tracked

Montalvo Elementary scores 34 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 45th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 41% meet the standard today, versus 46% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 58th percentile · Scope Score 40 of 1002022 · 52nd percentile · Scope Score 33 of 1002023 · 55th percentile · Scope Score 35 of 1002024 · 43rd percentile · Scope Score 34 of 1002025 · 45th percentile · Scope Score 34 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 341%52%45%29%43%
Grade 438%25%41%33%38%
Grade 561%40%43%54%48%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 358%61%62%46%45%
Grade 433%29%48%35%44%
Grade 545%21%16%40%26%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.

ELA42% met or exceeded
Exceeded 20%Met 22%Nearly Met 29%Not Met 29%
Math40% met or exceeded
Exceeded 16%Met 24%Nearly Met 23%Not Met 37%
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+Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)AbsenceSuspension
This school3417%41%Weak · p3714.0%0.3%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%Average · p5017.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3439
% Exceeded17%21%
% Met+41%43%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Weak · p37Average · p50
Absence14.0%17.9%
Suspension0.3%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 82nd percentile in reading against the 51st in math, among elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 82nd percentile of California elementary schools in reading and the 51st in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 37th. A gap that size between reading and math in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.

— 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.

The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 3
26%
exceeded standard · 45% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 5
14%
exceeded standard · 48% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G3→G5SchoolScope growth measure: 37th percentile among California elementary schools.37th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +11 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 82nd percentile of 7,519 reported schools.82nd pctile · +11 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 51st percentile of 7,518 reported schools.51st pctile · +1 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Montalvo Elementary in Ventura, 29.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 36.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Montalvo Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 7.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (32.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (38.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 125 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 41% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 41%, district —, state 43%41%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 38%, district 32%, state 32%38% · −3 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 31%, district 30%, state 32%31% · −10 vs school
MaleMale: this school 43%, district 41%, state 42%43% · +2 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 39%, district 45%, state 44%39% · −2 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 52%, district 58%, state 56%52% · +11 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 13%, district 12%, state 15%13% · −28 vs school

5 of 12 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.

Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 10.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +7.6pp.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
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 students91 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 91 students.+7 pts · +6 vs typical
Low-income students82 studentsLow-income students, reading: +5 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 82 students.+5 pts · +5 vs typical
English Only74 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +16 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 74 students.+16 pts · +13 vs typical
Math
Hispanic or Latino students91 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 91 students.+1 pts · +2 vs typical
Low-income students82 studentsLow-income students, math: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 82 students.−2 pts · −1 vs typical
English Only74 studentsEnglish Only, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 74 students.+2 pts · +1 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 25 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher25 · district 25
Teaching staff16 teachers
Avg. experience14.5 years
Fully credentialed88%
First-year teachers19%
PrincipalClaudia Esquivel
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Teacher salary schedule$58,866 – $117,409
Principal salary$148,018 – $169,124
Superintendent salary$291,604

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

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

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 14.0%, district 16.4%, state 17.9%14.0% · −3.9pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.3%, district —, state 1.6%0.3% · −1.3pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–612.5%
TK/K12.2%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $17,450 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$727 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: $17,450, CA average $14,491$17,450 · spent at this school
Federal share$727 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,316 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 55%Instruction support 12%Student services 12%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 1%

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$12,949 per pupil
2019$11,763 per pupil
2018$12,006 per pupil
2017$11,435 per pupil
2016$11,262 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 36% 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 Latino77.1% · district 55.3% · CA 56.1%
White17.9% · district 35.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian2.0% · district 2.9% · CA 10.2%
Black0.5% · district 1.2% · CA 4.8%
Other2.5% · district 5.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch66.5% · CA 64%
Median income$104K · CA $85K
Median home value$816K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+42% · CA 35%
ZIP population52,906
Median age41 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

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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.

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SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Montalvo ElementaryPublicDeveloping17%41%School being viewed
Mound ElementaryPublicStrong34%65%1.2 mi
Poinsettia ElementaryPublicStrong28%57%2.0 mi
Thurgood Marshall ElementaryPublicSolid22%46%2.4 mi
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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

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School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with Ventura Unified.

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Ventura HighScope 61direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Ventura High, which sent 25 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 21 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Ventura High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 80% of Ventura High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

25 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 21 AP subjects taught → full record on Ventura 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 the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.

  • Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
  • 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.
  • Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
  • Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Montalvo Elementary a good elementary school?
Montalvo Elementary has a Scope Score of 34 out of 100, placing it in the 45th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #3,174 statewide. 17.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 3.9 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 Montalvo Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 40.7% of students at Montalvo Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 17.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 23.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 17.4% 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. 376 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Montalvo Elementary rank in California?
Montalvo Elementary ranks #3,174 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 45th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5), 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.
Is Montalvo Elementary getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Montalvo Elementary that cohort is 2023 G3 → 2025 G5, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks weak among California elementary schools — roughly the 37th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the elementary Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Montalvo Elementary?
14.0% of students at Montalvo 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 0.3%, 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 Montalvo Elementary compare to other schools in Ventura?
Montalvo Elementary scores 34/100 (45th 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 397 students. Use the schools in Ventura page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Montalvo Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Montalvo Elementary in Ventura, 29.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 36.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Montalvo Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 7.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (32.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (38.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 125 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 Montalvo Elementary feed into?
By attendance boundary, Montalvo Elementary is zoned to Cabrillo Middle. Cabrillo Middle has a Scope Score of 49 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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Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

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 6 things our score weighs

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 68 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard17.4%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded40.7%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Weakaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism14.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.3%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)16.0%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

Montalvo Elementary: reading the evidence

Montalvo posts 41% meeting the standard and 17.4% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

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

Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.

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.

Montalvo Elementary is ranked #3,174 statewide · #8 of 17 in Ventura Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard17.4%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded40.7%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Weakaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism14.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.3%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)16.0%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 46 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 48 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)
↓ vs CA average · 37th pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 56 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 2.9pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.6pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 48 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 36522%22%31%26%43%−0
Grade 48121%17%36%26%38%−6
Grade 54214%33%14%38%48%−0
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 36520%25%14%42%45%−1
Grade 48114%31%23%32%44%+3
Grade 54214%12%36%38%26%−9

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
Schoolwide4210%26%50%14%

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 Disadvantaged12529.6%−7−9
Hispanic/Latino14338.5%+0−0
White2751.8%−12−10
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
Montalvo Elementary ←—3417.4%40.7%−6.9pp+68 pts0.3%
Mound Elementary1.2 mi5733.6%64.5%+13.7pp—0.5%
Poinsettia Elementary2 mi5127.7%56.5%−17.1pp—1.7%
Thurgood Marshall Elementary2.4 mi4622.4%46.1%+23.0pp—3.8%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20194058#232119.8%45.9%5.2%0.8%+3.6pp
20223352#274413.6%37.8%30.1%0.8%-25.9pp
20233555#254215.9%42.4%21.1%2.0%-23.7pp
20243443#326214.9%39.4%16.9%0.9%+9.7pp
20253445#317417.4%40.7%14.0%0.3%-6.9pp
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
Female5.3%12.1%+6.8pp
Male4.4%15.3%+10.9pp
Hispanic/Latino5.0%14.2%+9.2pp
Two or More Races16.7%——
White1.4%15.5%+14.1pp
Students with Disabilities6.3%12.7%+6.4pp
English Learners8.9%12.7%+3.8pp
Homeless28.0%46.2%+18.2pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged6.8%16.2%+9.4pp
All Students4.8%13.7%+8.9pp
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+11118Accelerated+1118Average
Hispanic or Latino+791Accelerated+191Average
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+582Accelerated−282Average
English Only+1674not categorised+274not categorised
Students with Disabilities+924Accelerated−1324Moderate
White+1322Accelerated−322Average
English Learner−1819Moderate−219Average
English Learners Only−1516not categorised−416not categorised

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 2026-09-18

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