One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street posts 35% meeting the standard and 16.3% 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 | 48 | 16% | 35% | +1.0 | 11.1% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary scores 48 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 64th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street deserves a closer read. The school sits in Gardena, 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 31st to the 64th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1800 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 28% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 30% | 24% | 25% | 35% | 37% |
| Grade 4 | 28% | 21% | 28% | 36% | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 31% | 39% | 20% | 40% | 38% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 25% | 21% | 30% | 35% | 31% |
| Grade 4 | 29% | 16% | 31% | 30% | 41% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 23% | 14% | 30% | 32% |
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 4.6pp across grades; the floor rises 1.6pp. 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 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 One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary in Gardena, 35.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 5.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (33.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (36.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.1 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 240 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 0.9pp 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 (17.0% vs 6.6%). 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
$2,573 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), 22% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 63
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 48
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 53
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 | 82 | 18% | 18% | 29% | 34% | 37% | −7 |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 20% | 14% | 15% | 51% | 34% | −11 |
| Grade 5 | 102 | 14% | 25% | 32% | 29% | 38% | −10 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 83 | 13% | 18% | 31% | 37% | 31% | −14 |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 17% | 23% | 32% | 28% | 41% | −1 |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 15% | 16% | 29% | 39% | 32% | −4 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 104 | 7% | 15% | 59% | 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 | 240 | 35.4% | −6 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 193 | 36.3% | −5 | −3 |
| English Learners | 49 | 4.1% | −3 | −6 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary ← | — | 48 | 16.3% | 35.4% | +1.0 | 0.1% |
| One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary | 2.1 mi | 65 | 41.3% | 66.4% | −2.0 | 0.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary | 2.7 mi | 64 | 47.0% | 76.8% | −11.1 | 0.1% |
| Figueroa Street Elementary | 1.8 mi | 59 | 25.3% | 46.9% | −22.9 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 35 | 31 | #3816 | 7.7% | 28.2% | 19.7% | 0.1% | +1.2pp |
| 2022 | 36 | 50 | #2897 | 8.0% | 24.0% | 44.8% | 0.0% | +8.7pp |
| 2023 | 33 | 35 | #3721 | 8.6% | 24.7% | 28.9% | 0.0% | -10.4pp |
| 2024 | 48 | 66 | #1974 | 13.1% | 34.5% | 12.3% | 0.1% | +0.3pp |
| 2025 | 48 | 64 | #2064 | 16.3% | 35.4% | 11.1% | 0.1% | +1.0pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 18.3% | 10.3% | -8.0pp |
| Male | 21.1% | 11.1% | -10.0pp |
| Black/African American | 33.3% | 15.1% | -18.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.6% | 9.1% | -7.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 18.8% | 15.3% | -3.5pp |
| English Learners | 9.8% | 5.8% | -4.0pp |
| Homeless | 46.4% | 4.5% | -41.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.3% | 10.4% | -9.9pp |
| All Students | 19.8% | 10.7% | -9.1pp |
| Asian | — | 0.0% | — |
| Filipino | — | 41.7% | — |
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