Muir K-8: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Muir K-8 posts 41% meeting the standard and 19.2% 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 | 41 | 19% | 41% | -1.4 | 27.0% | 3.8% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Muir K-8 scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 47th 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 “41% proficient” and call it done. Muir K-8 deserves a closer read. The school sits in Long Beach, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 47th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 41% meet the standard today, versus 44% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 47% | 36% | 40% | 38% | 41% |
| Grade 4 | 37% | 38% | 33% | 35% | 38% |
| Grade 5 | 46% | 43% | 39% | 38% | 50% |
| Grade 6 | 70% | 47% | 38% | 40% | 49% |
| Grade 7 | 72% | 64% | 55% | 44% | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 73% | 63% | 47% | 51% | 53% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50% | 36% | 37% | 41% | 47% |
| Grade 4 | 44% | 33% | 25% | 37% | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 40% | 18% | 28% | 30% | 34% |
| Grade 6 | 64% | 28% | 35% | 32% | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 55% | 38% | 42% | 31% | 40% |
| Grade 8 | 60% | 36% | 42% | 35% | 32% |
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 9.5pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 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 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.
How every group of students does here
At Muir K-8 in Long Beach, 40.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 41.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Muir K-8 trails its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (42.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.3 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 432 students tested.
7 of 16 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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 6.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +7.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (47.2% vs 19.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$349 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 1,029 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 29% 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 60
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 | 105 | 22% | 19% | 21% | 38% | 41% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 21% | 18% | 14% | 48% | 38% | −6 |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 21% | 30% | 17% | 33% | 50% | +3 |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 21% | 28% | 22% | 30% | 49% | +2 |
| Grade 7 | 106 | 19% | 30% | 25% | 26% | 49% | +1 |
| Grade 8 | 94 | 15% | 38% | 21% | 26% | 53% | +7 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 103 | 20% | 26% | 19% | 34% | 47% | +1 |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 14% | 19% | 26% | 41% | 33% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 18% | 17% | 27% | 39% | 34% | −1 |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 16% | 13% | 37% | 34% | 29% | −6 |
| Grade 7 | 104 | 16% | 24% | 18% | 41% | 40% | +6 |
| Grade 8 | 93 | 11% | 22% | 31% | 37% | 32% | −0 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 202 | 4% | 24% | 55% | 16% |
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 | 432 | 40.3% | −2 | +2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 434 | 42.9% | −2 | +4 |
| English Learners | 110 | 4.5% | −8 | −6 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muir K-8 ← | — | 41 | 19.2% | 40.6% | −1.4 | 3.8% |
| Longfellow Elementary | 1.9 mi | 63 | 35.6% | 60.7% | +3.9 | 1.4% |
| Los Cerritos Elementary | 1.3 mi | 60 | 44.4% | 67.2% | −3.5 | 0.1% |
| Dominguez Elementary | 1.6 mi | 57 | 25.2% | 53.4% | −2.9 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 42 | 49 | #2782 | 20.4% | 43.9% | 12.5% | 1.8% | -5.6pp |
| 2022 | 33 | 41 | #3360 | 13.6% | 34.2% | 38.1% | 2.9% | -5.9pp |
| 2023 | 34 | 37 | #3633 | 13.9% | 33.6% | 31.0% | 4.9% | -5.3pp |
| 2024 | 38 | 39 | #3487 | 16.1% | 36.4% | 24.2% | 6.3% | -5.4pp |
| 2025 | 41 | 47 | #3040 | 19.2% | 40.6% | 27.0% | 3.8% | -1.4pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 11.9% | 25.5% | +13.6pp |
| Male | 13.0% | 29.1% | +16.1pp |
| Asian | 6.1% | 25.0% | +18.9pp |
| Black/African American | 12.9% | 40.7% | +27.8pp |
| Filipino | 25.0% | — | — |
| White | 6.0% | 13.0% | +7.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 12.5% | 26.6% | +14.1pp |
| Pacific Islander | 40.6% | 52.6% | +12.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 9.4% | 31.4% | +22.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.5% | 39.3% | +24.8pp |
| English Learners | 10.7% | 18.6% | +7.9pp |
| Foster Youth | 5.0% | 40.0% | +35.0pp |
| Homeless | 22.9% | 30.8% | +7.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 13.3% | 31.9% | +18.6pp |
| All Students | 12.5% | 27.4% | +14.9pp |
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