Monterey Bay Charter: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Monterey Bay Charter pairs 53% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Monterey Bay Charter scores 49 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 69th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “53% proficient” and call it done. Monterey Bay Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Pacific Grove, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 54.6% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide.
As a charter, Monterey Bay Charter enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 20.4pp across grades; the floor rises 30.6pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Monterey Bay Charter's most underrated number
54.6% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 63
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 59
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 49 | 16% | 27% | 33% | 24% | 43% | −1 |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 21% | 44% | 14% | 21% | 65% | +20 |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 37% | 37% | 14% | 12% | 73% | +26 |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 21% | 48% | 25% | 6% | 69% | +22 |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 29% | 47% | 14% | 10% | 76% | +28 |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 16% | 44% | 20% | 20% | 60% | +14 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50 | 12% | 30% | 36% | 22% | 42% | −4 |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 11% | 30% | 41% | 18% | 41% | −1 |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 41% | 14% | 20% | 24% | 55% | +20 |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 31% | 29% | 25% | 15% | 60% | +25 |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 24% | 36% | 16% | 24% | 60% | +26 |
| Grade 8 | 51 | 12% | 14% | 45% | 29% | 25% | −7 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 100 | 19% | 28% | 45% | 8% |
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 | 76 | 54.6% | +35 | +16 |
| White | 167 | 68.9% | — | +7 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 66 | 56.1% | +36 | +17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monterey Bay Charter ← | — | 49 | 23.0% | 53.2% | +21.9 | 1.5% |
| Robert Down Elementary | 1.1 mi | 68 | 43.5% | 72.0% | −6.2 | 0.8% |
| Big Sur Charter | 1.8 mi | 66 | 37.3% | 68.0% | — | 0.6% |
| Forest Grove Elementary | 0.4 mi | 56 | 32.5% | 56.6% | +10.9 | 0.9% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.