Monte Vista: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Monte Vista posts 37% meeting the standard and 8.6% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 35 | 9% | 37% | — | 28.0% | 0.9% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Monte Vista scores 35 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 29th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “37% proficient” and call it done. Monte Vista deserves a closer read. The school sits in Simi Valley, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 36.4% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 45th to the 29th percentile since 2022.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | 50% | — | 33% | — |
| Grade 4 | — | 37% | — | — | 45% |
| Grade 5 | — | 35% | 38% | — | 46% |
| Grade 6 | — | — | 38% | — | 40% |
| Grade 7 | 44% | 45% | 41% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade 8 | 46% | 42% | 33% | 33% | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 33% | 41% | 48% | 38% | 38% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | — | 13% | 23% | — | 18% |
| Grade 6 | — | — | 33% | — | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 24% | 26% | 13% | 40% | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 13% | 10% | 10% | 13% | 17% |
| Grade 11 | 2% | 12% | 14% | 14% | 7% |
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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.
How every group of students does here
At Monte Vista in Simi Valley, 26.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 38.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Monte Vista trails its district average for low-income students by 12.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (9.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (31.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 20.6 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 53 students tested.
7 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (48.5% vs 7.5%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Monte Vista serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$318 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.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
On the state's science test (CAST), 19% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 59
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 36
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 47
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 11 | 18% | 27% | 45% | 9% | 45% | +1 |
| Grade 5 | 13 | 8% | 38% | 38% | 15% | 46% | −2 |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 0% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 40% | −7 |
| Grade 7 | 20 | 10% | 35% | 5% | 50% | 45% | −3 |
| Grade 8 | 29 | 7% | 21% | 21% | 52% | 28% | −18 |
| Grade 11 | 45 | 16% | 22% | 20% | 42% | 38% | −9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 11 | 0% | 18% | 55% | 27% | 18% | −17 |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 0% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 10% | −25 |
| Grade 7 | 19 | 5% | 11% | 32% | 53% | 16% | −18 |
| Grade 8 | 29 | 14% | 3% | 10% | 72% | 17% | −15 |
| Grade 11 | 43 | 7% | 0% | 7% | 86% | 7% | −16 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 103 | 5% | 15% | 70% | 11% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 53 | 26.4% | −12 | −12 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 44 | 31.8% | −6 | −7 |
| White | 24 | 29.2% | −28 | −33 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monte Vista ← | — | 35 | 8.6% | 36.6% | — | 0.9% |
| Vista Elementary | 2.1 mi | 70 | 46.3% | 75.3% | −10.6 | 0.7% |
| Hollow Hills Elementary | 1 mi | 58 | 40.3% | 68.9% | +0.4 | 3.1% |
| Crestview Elementary | 1.8 mi | 50 | 21.9% | 53.7% | −7.6 | 0.9% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 34 | 45 | #3176 | 13.3% | 28.9% | 41.7% | 0.0% | -9.9pp |
| 2023 | 26 | 15 | #4880 | 3.9% | 30.8% | 38.7% | 0.2% | — |
| 2024 | 32 | 24 | #4364 | 8.3% | 33.3% | 25.1% | 1.2% | — |
| 2025 | 35 | 29 | #4089 | 8.6% | 36.6% | 28.0% | 0.9% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 12 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 54.9% | 36.6% | -18.3pp |
| Male | 49.1% | 36.7% | -12.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 62.2% | 40.2% | -22.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 50.0% | 35.5% | -14.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 55.2% | 30.3% | -24.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 55.5% | 40.9% | -14.6pp |
| All Students | 52.6% | 36.6% | -16.0pp |
| Black/African American | — | 27.3% | — |
| English Learners | — | 44.1% | — |
| Homeless | — | 57.7% | — |
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