Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Ninety-Ninth Street posts 45% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 43 | 22% | 45% | -2.4 | 22.7% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary scores 43 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 51st 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 “45% proficient” and call it done. Ninety-Ninth Street deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 19th to the 51st percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1600 elementary schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 45% meet the standard today, versus 49% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 39% | 52% | 58% | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 56% | 46% | 42% | 33% | 54% |
| Grade 5 | 39% | 46% | 41% | 38% | 39% |
| Grade 6 | 24% | 60% | 26% | 33% | 47% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 59% | 33% | 48% | 62% | 39% |
| Grade 4 | 48% | 43% | 44% | 35% | 75% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 24% | 28% | 26% | 29% |
| Grade 6 | 14% | 37% | 8% | 26% | 36% |
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 falls 4.2pp across grades; the floor rises 4.6pp. 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 how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 42.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 1.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (46.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (45.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 23.4 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 228 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 6.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (29.8% vs 15.6%). 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
$2,306 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 15% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
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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 3 | 70 | 17% | 17% | 29% | 37% | 34% | −9 |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 26% | 28% | 29% | 17% | 54% | +9 |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 13% | 26% | 26% | 35% | 39% | −9 |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 18% | 29% | 31% | 22% | 47% | +0 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 70 | 19% | 20% | 30% | 31% | 39% | −7 |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 42% | 32% | 21% | 4% | 75% | +33 |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 16% | 13% | 35% | 36% | 29% | −6 |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 13% | 22% | 27% | 38% | 36% | +1 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 55 | 2% | 13% | 67% | 18% |
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 | 228 | 42.1% | +1 | +4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 179 | 45.8% | +5 | +7 |
| Black/African American | 40 | 32.5% | −3 | −0 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary ← | — | 43 | 22.2% | 44.9% | −2.4 | 0.1% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 3 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Figueroa Street Elementary | 1.6 mi | 59 | 25.3% | 46.9% | −22.9 | 0.3% |
| Ronald E. McNair Elementary | 2.2 mi | 56 | 31.4% | 60.2% | −36.4 | 0.2% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 31 | 19 | #4447 | 21.2% | 48.7% | 24.2% | 0.0% | -27.8pp |
| 2022 | 36 | 50 | #2855 | 15.0% | 38.4% | 54.4% | 0.4% | -0.7pp |
| 2023 | 33 | 35 | #3740 | 14.3% | 42.3% | 37.2% | 0.0% | -15.9pp |
| 2024 | 41 | 49 | #2953 | 18.9% | 41.8% | 32.5% | 0.1% | -28.1pp |
| 2025 | 43 | 51 | #2806 | 22.2% | 44.9% | 22.7% | 0.1% | -2.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 25.7% | 19.5% | -6.2pp |
| Male | 23.5% | 26.6% | +3.1pp |
| Black/African American | 30.2% | 21.5% | -8.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 22.5% | 23.0% | +0.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 37.1% | 34.9% | -2.2pp |
| English Learners | 20.4% | 23.3% | +2.9pp |
| Homeless | 26.5% | 30.0% | +3.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 25.2% | 23.4% | -1.8pp |
| All Students | 24.5% | 23.1% | -1.4pp |
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