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Mountain Vista Middle

Kelseyville, CA · Grades 6-8 · 405 students · Kelseyville Unified

The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.

22% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 7% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

7%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

22%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

405

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

7%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

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 6 & 8 · 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: 18%2022: 7%2023: 5%2024: 11%2025: 7%2019: 38%2022: 25%2023: 21%2024: 17%2025: 22%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 18%2022: 7%2023: 5%2024: 11%2025: 7%2019: 38%2022: 25%2023: 21%2024: 17%2025: 22%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201918%38%
20227%25%
20235%21%
202411%17%
20257%22%

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

Climbed from the 10th to the 18th percentile of California middle schools since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “15% proficient” and call it done. Mountain Vista 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.

The headline number: 6.8% chronic absenteeism — versus 18.1% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.

398 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 138 tracked

Mountain Vista Middle scores 23 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 18th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 15% meet the standard today, versus 25% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 10th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 1002022 · 9th percentile · Scope Score 16 of 1002023 · 7th percentile · Scope Score 14 of 1002024 · 9th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 1002025 · 18th percentile · Scope Score 23 of 100
ELAOrange(Increased Significantly)MathOrange(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 646%20%14%17%18%
Grade 724%27%14%11%19%
Grade 829%31%29%17%26%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 617%11%4%14%8%
Grade 714%9%6%5%17%
Grade 818%4%6%7%5%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in ten of students here meet the standard. 2% clear it by a lot.

ELA21% met or exceeded
Exceeded 3%Met 18%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 53%
Math10% met or exceeded
Exceeded 1%Met 9%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 63%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)AbsenceSuspension
This school232%15%Average · p526.8%7.5%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%Average · p5018.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2339
% Exceeded2%17%
% Met+15%40%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Average · p52Average · p50
Absence6.8%18.1%
Suspension7.5%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

Our growth read and California's own model disagree here — the 52nd percentile against the state's 33rd.

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 here the two measures disagree. Ours puts this school around the 52nd percentile of California middle schools; the state's puts it around the 33rd in reading and math together — a harder read than ours. We are not going to pretend one of those is the answer. Neither measure sees an individual child's classroom, and a disagreement this size is worth asking the principal about directly.

— 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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 6
2%
exceeded standard · 14% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 8
3%
exceeded standard · 26% 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, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 52nd percentile among California middle schools.52nd pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −7 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 23rd percentile of 7,519 reported schools.23rd pctile · −7 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −2 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 43rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.43rd pctile · −2 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 Mountain Vista Middle in Kelseyville, 15.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 19.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Mountain Vista Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 3.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (6.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (17.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 20.8 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 290 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 15% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 15%, district —, state 40%15%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 11%, district 15%, state 32%11% · −4 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 12%, district 14%, state 32%12% · −3 vs school
MaleMale: this school 13%, district 17%, state 42%13% · −2 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 18%, district 21%, state 44%18% · +3 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 18%, district 23%, state 56%18% · +2 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 2%, district 4%, state 11%2% · −14 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 2%, district 7%, state 15%2% · −13 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 26%, district 23%, state 56%26% · +11 vs school

6 of 15 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 rises by 5.3pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +5.7pp.

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 middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students272 studentsLow-income students, reading: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 272 students.−8 pts · −5 vs typical
English Only253 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 253 students.−8 pts · −8 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students194 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 194 students.−6 pts · −4 vs typical
White139 studentsWhite, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 139 students.−14 pts · −14 vs typical
English Learner76 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 76 students.−7 pts · −2 vs typical
Math
Low-income students273 studentsLow-income students, math: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 273 students.+1 pts · +6 vs typical
English Only254 studentsEnglish Only, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 254 students.+2 pts · +5 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students196 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −9 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 196 students.−9 pts · −3 vs typical
White139 studentsWhite, math: +4 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 139 students.+4 pts · +3 vs typical
English Learner76 studentsEnglish Learner, math: −13 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 76 students.−13 pts · −10 vs typical
this school typical California middle 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 23 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher23 · district 21
Teaching staff20 teachers
Avg. experience7.8 years
Fully credentialed49%
First-year teachers10%
Intern / emergency permit18.9%
PrincipalRichard Kale
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Teacher salary schedule$51,563 – $100,220
Principal salary$135,319 – $143,365
Superintendent salary$200,625

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.

7.5% of students were suspended, versus 3.6% statewide — the data can't say why.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 6.8%, district 20.0%, state 18.1%6.8% · −11.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 7.5%, district —, state 3.6%7.5% · +3.8pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–65.2%
Grades 7–86.9%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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

It spends $17,116 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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.

$695 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: $17,116, CA average $14,491$17,116 · spent at this school
Federal share$695 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,300 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 54%Instruction support 10%Student services 17%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 9%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$13,210 per pupil
2019$13,490 per pupil
2018$14,408 per pupil
2017$13,037 per pupil
2016$12,449 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

At 405 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 13% 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 Latino50.4% · district 46.7% · CA 56.1%
White38.3% · district 41.6% · CA 19.9%
Black0.7% · district 0.5% · CA 4.8%
Other10.6% · district 11.2% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch70.4% · CA 64%
Median income$63K · CA $85K
Median home value$352K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+19% · CA 35%
ZIP population12,592
Median age47 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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A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

Ask a current family: “When your child needs help, how does the school respond?”

Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

1 private school within 10 miles
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What should I check before applying?
District public
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Charter
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Private
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Moving & enrollment

Which schools could serve my child?

Check your address with the district

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

District information →School website →

Schools across the K–12 journey

Kelseyville HighScope 36direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Kelseyville High, which sent 4 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 1 AP subject. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Kelseyville High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 56% of Kelseyville High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

4 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 1 AP subjects taught → full record on Kelseyville 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.

Plan your next step

What should I do next?

Worth a school visit

Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
  • 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 Mountain Vista Middle a good middle school?
Mountain Vista Middle has a Scope Score of 23 out of 100, placing it in the 18th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,780 statewide. 2.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 14.8 percentage points below the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 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 Mountain Vista Middle's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 15.5% of students at Mountain Vista Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 2.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 13.1% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 2.4% 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. 797 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Mountain Vista Middle rank in California?
Mountain Vista Middle ranks #1,780 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 18th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), 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 Mountain Vista Middle getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Mountain Vista Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks average among California middle schools — roughly the 52nd percentile, ahead of 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 middle 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 Mountain Vista Middle?
6.8% of students at Mountain Vista Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 7.5%. 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 Mountain Vista Middle compare to other schools in Kelseyville?
Mountain Vista Middle scores 23/100 (18th percentile) among California middle 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 405 students. Use the schools in Kelseyville page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Mountain Vista Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Mountain Vista Middle in Kelseyville, 15.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 19.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Mountain Vista Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 3.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (6.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (17.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 20.8 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 290 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 high school does Mountain Vista Middle feed into?
By attendance boundary, Mountain Vista Middle is zoned to Kelseyville High. Kelseyville High has a Scope Score of 36 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.

Use the published evidence to prepare questions, then verify fit and access with the school.

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 46 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 standard2.4%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded15.5%40.0%23%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Averageaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism6.8%18.1%5%
Suspension rate7.5%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)21.2%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

Mountain Vista Middle: reading the evidence

Mountain Vista posts low test scores — and grade 8 tests above grade 6 here this year, by 2.3pp. 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.

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.

Mountain Vista Middle is ranked #1,780 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard2.4%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded15.5%40.0%23%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Averageaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism6.8%18.1%5%
Suspension rate7.5%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)21.2%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 31 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
↑ vs CA average · 52nd pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 66 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.7pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 3.6% · index 35 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▲ 1.2pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 50 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 61421%17%25%57%18%−29
Grade 71197%13%23%58%19%−28
Grade 81373%23%31%43%26%−21
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 61431%8%26%66%8%−26
Grade 71183%14%26%57%17%−17
Grade 81380%5%29%66%5%−27

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
Schoolwide1371%12%66%21%

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 Disadvantaged29015.9%−3−22
Hispanic/Latino20417.8%−2−21
White15121.2%−7−41
03Nearest middle 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
Mountain Vista Middle ←—232.4%15.5%+2.3pp+46 pts7.5%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20191910#17645.4%24.7%16.4%13.9%-8.0pp
2022169#19171.9%16.8%7.1%11.3%+2.2pp
2023147#19731.7%12.3%9.8%10.4%+8.5pp
2024199#19562.1%11.8%7.4%6.2%-3.4pp
20252318#17802.4%15.5%6.8%7.5%+2.3pp
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
What we can't show
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female20.4%5.7%-14.7pp
Male13.2%7.0%-6.2pp
Hispanic/Latino15.5%5.6%-9.9pp
American Indian/Alaska Native46.2%8.3%-37.9pp
Two or More Races22.2%3.8%-18.4pp
White15.3%7.2%-8.1pp
Students with Disabilities18.5%13.8%-4.7pp
English Learners6.7%5.6%-1.1pp
Homeless28.9%7.7%-21.2pp
Military-Connected2.9%0.0%-2.9pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged17.4%8.5%-8.9pp
All Students16.6%6.3%-10.3pp
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−7371Moderate−2373Average
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−8272Moderate+1273Average
English Only−8253not categorised+2254not categorised
Hispanic or Latino−6194Moderate−9196Moderate
White−14139Moderate+4139Average
English Learner−776Moderate−1376Moderate
English Learners Only−1456not categorised−1356not categorised
Students with Disabilities−2651Minimal−2051Moderate
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)−1135Moderate−1835Moderate
Homeless Youth−620Moderate+1420Accelerated
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+220not categorised−1620not categorised
Two or More Races−1118Moderate−218Average
American Indian or Alaska Native−1412Moderate+1112Accelerated

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=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-27

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