Ninety-Third Street Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Ninety-Third Street posts 33% meeting the standard and 14.4% 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 | 14% | 33% | +5.7 | 16.6% | 0.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Ninety-Third Street Elementary scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 46th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “33% proficient” and call it done. Ninety-Third 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 18th to the 46th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1400 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 33% of students meet the standard today, above the 25% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 30% | 19% | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 20% | 16% | 16% | 34% | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 26% | 22% | 27% | 17% | 38% |
| Grade 6 | 34% | 24% | 27% | 28% | 25% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 37% | 23% | 36% | 27% | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 19% | 24% | 25% | 39% | 38% |
| Grade 5 | 21% | 11% | 27% | 20% | 32% |
| Grade 6 | 23% | 11% | 14% | 13% | 11% |
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 rises 3.5pp across grades; the floor rises 15.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. 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 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-Third Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 30.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ninety-Third Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 10.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (32.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (35.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 25.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 388 students tested.
5 of 13 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 15.6pp 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 (26.3% vs 14.7%). 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
$2,674 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 772 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), 17% 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
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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 | 120 | 13% | 11% | 23% | 53% | 23% | −20 |
| Grade 4 | 123 | 12% | 22% | 15% | 50% | 34% | −11 |
| Grade 5 | 125 | 16% | 22% | 14% | 48% | 38% | −9 |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 0% | 25% | 38% | 38% | 25% | −22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 122 | 16% | 20% | 19% | 46% | 35% | −10 |
| Grade 4 | 123 | 15% | 24% | 28% | 34% | 38% | −3 |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 16% | 16% | 17% | 51% | 32% | −4 |
| Grade 6 | 36 | 3% | 8% | 22% | 67% | 11% | −24 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 127 | 2% | 14% | 51% | 32% |
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 | 388 | 30.7% | −10 | −8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 323 | 35.6% | −5 | −3 |
| English Learners | 97 | 6.2% | −1 | −4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninety-Third Street Elementary ← | — | 41 | 14.4% | 33.5% | +5.7 | 0.7% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 2.4 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Figueroa Street Elementary | 1.5 mi | 59 | 25.3% | 46.9% | −22.9 | 0.3% |
| Ronald E. McNair Elementary | 2.7 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 | 18 | #4492 | 7.5% | 25.4% | 22.8% | 0.0% | -10.3pp |
| 2022 | 25 | 21 | #4548 | 5.4% | 19.1% | 51.8% | 0.0% | -4.4pp |
| 2023 | 32 | 32 | #3876 | 7.3% | 25.5% | 25.4% | 0.1% | -2.0pp |
| 2024 | 34 | 28 | #4140 | 8.5% | 26.5% | 20.4% | 0.4% | -6.4pp |
| 2025 | 41 | 46 | #3080 | 14.4% | 33.5% | 16.6% | 0.7% | +5.7pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 21.2% | 16.8% | -4.4pp |
| Male | 24.3% | 16.2% | -8.1pp |
| Black/African American | 39.4% | 33.3% | -6.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 18.9% | 13.4% | -5.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 29.3% | 19.4% | -9.9pp |
| English Learners | 18.1% | 13.2% | -4.9pp |
| Foster Youth | 33.3% | — | — |
| Homeless | 25.5% | 37.5% | +12.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.7% | 16.9% | -5.8pp |
| All Students | 22.9% | 16.5% | -6.4pp |
| Filipino | — | 24.3% | — |
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