One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street posts 43% meeting the standard and 19.5% 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 | 47 | 20% | 43% | -9.1 | 24.1% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary scores 47 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 62nd 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 “43% proficient” and call it done. One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street deserves a closer read. The school sits in Gardena, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 29.6% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 39th to the 62nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1200 elementary schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 43% meet the standard today, versus 47% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50% | 38% | 43% | 45% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 50% | 38% | 39% | 45% | 41% |
| Grade 5 | 46% | 49% | 46% | 44% | 50% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 51% | 50% | 39% | 54% | 54% |
| Grade 4 | 50% | 34% | 38% | 31% | 38% |
| Grade 5 | 34% | 28% | 30% | 29% | 29% |
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 2.1pp across grades; the floor rises 6.3pp. 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 One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary in Gardena, 40.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 4.8 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 229 students tested.
6 of 14 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 2.6pp 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
$2,028 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), 29% 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 66
Private alternatives nearby
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 | 103 | 25% | 18% | 31% | 25% | 44% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 20% | 21% | 21% | 38% | 41% | −4 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 23% | 27% | 26% | 24% | 50% | +2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 104 | 24% | 30% | 28% | 18% | 54% | +8 |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 13% | 26% | 30% | 31% | 38% | −3 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 12% | 17% | 37% | 34% | 29% | −6 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 82 | 7% | 22% | 57% | 13% |
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 | 229 | 40.4% | −1 | +2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 191 | 40.8% | −0 | +2 |
| Black/African American | 47 | 50.0% | +14 | +17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary ← | — | 47 | 19.5% | 42.6% | −9.1 | 0.3% |
| Arlington Elementary | 0.9 mi | 69 | 43.4% | 69.4% | +1.7 | 0.3% |
| One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary | 2 mi | 65 | 41.3% | 66.4% | −2.0 | 0.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary | 1.5 mi | 64 | 47.0% | 76.8% | −11.1 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 38 | 39 | #3373 | 19.2% | 47.1% | 20.9% | 0.0% | -10.9pp |
| 2022 | 37 | 54 | #2639 | 15.7% | 39.7% | 45.9% | 0.0% | -5.7pp |
| 2023 | 37 | 46 | #3099 | 14.5% | 39.1% | 34.9% | 0.0% | -2.9pp |
| 2024 | 41 | 48 | #2997 | 17.4% | 41.4% | 25.4% | 0.2% | -12.6pp |
| 2025 | 47 | 62 | #2209 | 19.5% | 42.6% | 24.1% | 0.3% | -9.1pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 20.4% | 25.2% | +4.8pp |
| Male | 21.6% | 23.5% | +1.9pp |
| Asian | 3.3% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 27.1% | 25.3% | -1.8pp |
| White | 22.2% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 20.8% | 25.6% | +4.8pp |
| Two or More Races | 21.4% | 23.5% | +2.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.3% | 32.0% | +4.7pp |
| English Learners | 19.0% | 24.4% | +5.4pp |
| Homeless | 41.7% | 22.6% | -19.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.7% | 25.8% | +3.1pp |
| All Students | 21.0% | 24.4% | +3.4pp |
| Filipino | — | 24.1% | — |
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