Mountain View Middle: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Mountain View sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 49 | 12% | 35% | +4.2 | 9.2% | 3.4% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Mountain View Middle scores 49 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 69th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. Mountain View deserves a closer read. The school sits in Turlock, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +4.2pp separates this year's grade 6 from its grade 8. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G6 → 2025 G8 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 46th to the 69th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 400 middle schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 35% meet the standard today, versus 41% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 45% | 28% | 35% | 29% | 46% |
| Grade 7 | 52% | 45% | 34% | 54% | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 42% | 25% | 34% | 40% | 50% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 35% | 9% | 13% | 8% | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 29% | 31% | 15% | 18% | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 40% | 6% | 38% | 19% | 34% |
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 7.8pp across grades; the floor rises 3.7pp. The state average falls 0.5pp 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.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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 Mountain View Middle in Turlock, 39.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 33.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Mountain View Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 6.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (18.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (42.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 31.6 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 121 students tested.
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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 0.8pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +0.8pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
What gets spent here
$339 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
At 166 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 27% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 54 | 15% | 31% | 24% | 30% | 46% | −0 |
| Grade 7 | 54 | 7% | 31% | 26% | 35% | 39% | −9 |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 23% | 27% | 26% | 24% | 50% | +4 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 55 | 11% | 18% | 24% | 47% | 29% | −6 |
| Grade 7 | 54 | 4% | 11% | 35% | 50% | 15% | −19 |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 10% | 24% | 24% | 42% | 34% | +2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 62 | 3% | 24% | 53% | 19% |
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 | 121 | 39.7% | +6 | +1 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 116 | 42.2% | +9 | +3 |
| English Learners | 59 | 13.6% | −1 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Middle ← | — | 49 | 11.5% | 35.5% | +4.2 | 3.4% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 37 | 46 | #1085 | 9.7% | 40.5% | 7.5% | 2.4% | +1.1pp |
| 2022 | 29 | 30 | #1507 | 7.2% | 24.1% | 26.8% | 5.0% | -2.7pp |
| 2023 | 44 | 58 | #910 | 7.9% | 28.2% | 16.1% | 5.6% | +11.9pp |
| 2024 | 38 | 51 | #1086 | 8.3% | 28.0% | 17.2% | 10.5% | +11.3pp |
| 2025 | 49 | 69 | #696 | 11.5% | 35.5% | 9.2% | 3.4% | +4.2pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.9% | 8.2% | -1.7pp |
| Male | 4.3% | 8.6% | +4.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 8.9% | 9.7% | +0.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 11.1% | 5.3% | -5.8pp |
| English Learners | 8.9% | 8.6% | -0.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 9.2% | 10.1% | +0.9pp |
| All Students | 7.4% | 8.4% | +1.0pp |
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