One Hundred Fifty-Third Street: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
One Hundred Fifty-Third Street posts 35% meeting the standard and 12.5% 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 | 42 | 13% | 35% | -14.8 | 26.9% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
One Hundred Fifty-Third Street scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 49th 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 “35% proficient” and call it done. One Hundred Fifty-Third 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 seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 49th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 32% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 38% | 26% | 36% | 35% | 50% |
| Grade 4 | 20% | 42% | 33% | 28% | 28% |
| Grade 5 | 60% | 34% | 48% | 35% | 36% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27% | 22% | 29% | 38% | 42% |
| Grade 4 | 10% | 28% | 21% | 23% | 26% |
| Grade 5 | 35% | 14% | 23% | 18% | 26% |
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 slips 13.8pp. 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 Fifty-Third Street in Gardena, 38.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. One Hundred Fifty-Third Street trails its district average for low-income students by 2.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.3 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 153 students tested.
8 of 15 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 falls by 11.9pp 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
$2,712 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), 19% 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.
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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 | 62 | 18% | 32% | 23% | 27% | 50% | +7 |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 9% | 20% | 26% | 46% | 28% | −17 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 19% | 17% | 22% | 42% | 36% | −12 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 62 | 15% | 27% | 23% | 35% | 42% | −4 |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 2% | 24% | 41% | 33% | 26% | −16 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 13% | 13% | 20% | 54% | 26% | −9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 69 | 9% | 10% | 62% | 19% |
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 | 153 | 38.6% | −2 | +0 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 119 | 37.0% | −4 | −2 |
| Black/African American | 30 | 36.7% | +1 | +4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Fifty-Third Street ← | — | 42 | 12.5% | 34.8% | −14.8 | 0.1% |
| Arlington Elementary | 1.8 mi | 69 | 43.4% | 69.4% | +1.7 | 0.3% |
| One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary | 0.7 mi | 65 | 41.3% | 66.4% | −2.0 | 0.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary | 1.3 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 | 44 | 55 | #2484 | 12.2% | 31.6% | 16.6% | 0.2% | +14.8pp |
| 2022 | 27 | 26 | #4252 | 8.9% | 27.7% | 40.5% | 0.2% | -0.3pp |
| 2023 | 40 | 51 | #2799 | 12.0% | 31.7% | 31.4% | 0.0% | +3.1pp |
| 2024 | 38 | 39 | #3474 | 10.0% | 29.5% | 26.6% | 0.3% | -9.7pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 49 | #2931 | 12.5% | 34.8% | 26.9% | 0.1% | -14.8pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 13.7% | 22.7% | +9.0pp |
| Male | 19.7% | 32.2% | +12.5pp |
| Black/African American | 23.1% | 22.4% | -0.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.8% | 26.8% | +13.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 21.8% | 38.3% | +16.5pp |
| English Learners | 13.8% | 16.4% | +2.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 17.1% | 27.4% | +10.3pp |
| All Students | 16.7% | 27.7% | +11.0pp |
| Asian | — | 8.3% | — |
| Filipino | — | 38.5% | — |
| Homeless | — | 33.3% | — |
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