Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina posts 53% meeting the standard, and 26.0% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 51 | 26% | 53% | 98.7% | 1.4% | 8.8% | 0.8% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 66th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “53% proficient” and call it done. Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina deserves a closer read. The school sits in West Covina, where three in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina's low-income kids hit 67.6% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 81st to the 66th percentile since 2022.
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 89% | 88% | 74% | 69% |
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 49% | 56% | 27% | 37% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 53 are proficient by 11th grade → 99 graduate → 1 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina's most underrated number
67.6% 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into 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 Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina in West Covina, 67.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 43.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina outperforms its district average for low-income students by 23.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (35.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (64.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 5.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 37 students tested.
6 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$973 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 264 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 52% 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 High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 56
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Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 52 | 38% | 31% | 23% | 8% | 69% | +22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 52 | 13% | 23% | 33% | 31% | 37% | +13 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 54 | 11% | 41% | 48% | 0% |
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 | 37 | 67.6% | +24 | +29 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 39 | 64.1% | +22 | +25 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina ← | — | 51 | 26.0% | 52.9% | — | 0.8% |
| West Covina High | 1 mi | 61 | 20.8% | 45.8% | — | 0.5% |
| South Hills High | 0.9 mi | 56 | 21.9% | 50.7% | — | 1.7% |
| Covina High | 1 mi | 52 | 13.7% | 40.2% | — | 2.8% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 57 | 81 | #398 | 33.6% | 69.2% | 12.7% | 0.7% | — |
| 2023 | 59 | 85 | #330 | 40.3% | 72.0% | 8.9% | 0.7% | — |
| 2024 | 50 | 67 | #705 | 24.0% | 50.6% | 8.6% | 0.7% | — |
| 2025 | 51 | 66 | #730 | 26.0% | 52.9% | 8.8% | 0.8% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 0.0% | 3.2% | +3.2pp |
| Male | 0.0% | 0.9% | +0.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 0.0% | 2.5% | +2.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 0.0% | 3.4% | +3.4pp |
| All Students | 0.0% | 2.2% | +2.2pp |
| Asian | — | 0.0% | — |
| White | — | 0.0% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 0.0% | — |
| Homeless | — | 18.2% | — |
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