Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Ninety-Sixth Street posts 34% meeting the standard and 12.6% 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 | 40 | 13% | 34% | -2.3 | 25.9% | 0.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 44th 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 “34% proficient” and call it done. Ninety-Sixth 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 44th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1300 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 34% of students meet the standard today, above the 31% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 31% | 19% | 28% | 32% | 37% |
| Grade 4 | 25% | 40% | 24% | 40% | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 32% | 30% | 19% | 44% |
| Grade 6 | 21% | 33% | 24% | 33% | 27% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 47% | 22% | 25% | 32% | 31% |
| Grade 4 | 28% | 36% | 22% | 41% | 39% |
| Grade 5 | 22% | 11% | 20% | 14% | 21% |
| Grade 6 | 19% | 12% | 13% | 15% | 16% |
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 4.9pp across grades; the floor rises 6.4pp. 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 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-Sixth Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 35.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 5.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (27.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 285 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 6.6pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
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
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$3,337 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), 14% 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
3 within ~3 mi · avg 59
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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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 3 | 86 | 15% | 22% | 21% | 42% | 37% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 19% | 14% | 31% | 36% | 33% | −12 |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 10% | 33% | 17% | 40% | 44% | −4 |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 8% | 19% | 27% | 45% | 27% | −19 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 86 | 16% | 15% | 20% | 49% | 31% | −14 |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 13% | 26% | 34% | 27% | 39% | −3 |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 3% | 18% | 32% | 47% | 21% | −15 |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 5% | 11% | 27% | 56% | 16% | −19 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 78 | 5% | 9% | 59% | 27% |
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 | 285 | 35.4% | −5 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 235 | 37.9% | −3 | −1 |
| English Learners | 39 | 7.7% | +1 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary ← | — | 40 | 12.6% | 34.0% | −2.3 | 0.4% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 3.1 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Figueroa Street Elementary | 2.2 mi | 59 | 25.3% | 46.9% | −22.9 | 0.3% |
| Ronald E. McNair Elementary | 2.3 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 | 30 | 19 | #4486 | 10.3% | 30.5% | 21.6% | 0.5% | -13.2pp |
| 2022 | 32 | 41 | #3408 | 8.4% | 26.7% | 50.9% | 0.0% | +1.4pp |
| 2023 | 31 | 29 | #4069 | 8.0% | 24.8% | 43.1% | 0.0% | -2.1pp |
| 2024 | 33 | 26 | #4239 | 9.5% | 29.8% | 29.9% | 0.1% | -15.8pp |
| 2025 | 40 | 44 | #3195 | 12.6% | 34.0% | 25.9% | 0.4% | -2.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 24.0% | 21.7% | -2.3pp |
| Male | 19.5% | 30.9% | +11.4pp |
| Black/African American | 35.7% | 28.8% | -6.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 18.3% | 26.3% | +8.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 28.3% | 27.0% | -1.3pp |
| English Learners | 17.3% | 12.7% | -4.6pp |
| Foster Youth | 36.7% | 16.7% | -20.0pp |
| Homeless | 21.9% | 26.0% | +4.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.1% | 27.1% | +5.0pp |
| All Students | 21.7% | 26.4% | +4.7pp |
| Filipino | — | 17.4% | — |
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