Online Academy: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Online Academy sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 51 | 22% | 38% | +7.7 | 7.0% | 0.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Online Academy scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 68th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “38% proficient” and call it done. Online Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Ontario, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Online Academy's low-income kids hit 49.5% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 36th to the 68th percentile since 2023 — past roughly 1800 elementary schools.
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 65% | 14% | 42% |
| Grade 4 | 32% | 71% | 6% |
| Grade 5 | 48% | 20% | 64% |
| Grade 6 | 38% | 50% | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 57% | 80% | 62% |
| Grade 8 | 50% | 61% | 71% |
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 57% | 14% | 50% |
| Grade 4 | 22% | 65% | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 13% | 20% | 43% |
| Grade 6 | 33% | 25% | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 33% | 56% | 55% |
| Grade 8 | 21% | 50% | 70% |
Online Academy's most underrated number
49.5% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Online Academy in Ontario, 49.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Online Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (49.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (47.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 3.8 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 105 students tested.
8 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 22.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +8.9pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below is estimated from nearby schools in the same district — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$83 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 125 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 51% 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 57
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 34
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 | 12 | 25% | 17% | 17% | 42% | 42% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 16 | 6% | 0% | 25% | 69% | 6% | −39 |
| Grade 5 | 14 | 50% | 14% | 14% | 21% | 64% | +16 |
| Grade 6 | 16 | 6% | 31% | 63% | 0% | 38% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 17% | 45% | 31% | 7% | 62% | +14 |
| Grade 8 | 24 | 21% | 50% | 4% | 25% | 71% | +25 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 12 | 17% | 33% | 25% | 25% | 50% | +4 |
| Grade 4 | 16 | 6% | 19% | 25% | 50% | 25% | −17 |
| Grade 5 | 14 | 29% | 14% | 21% | 36% | 43% | +8 |
| Grade 6 | 16 | 13% | 25% | 38% | 25% | 38% | +2 |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 41% | 14% | 31% | 14% | 55% | +21 |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 43% | 26% | 9% | 22% | 70% | +37 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 37 | 22% | 30% | 38% | 11% |
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 | 105 | 49.5% | +7 | +11 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 87 | 47.1% | +4 | +8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Academy ← | — | 51 | 22.1% | 38.4% | +7.7 | 0.4% |
| Edison Elementary | 2.8 mi | 63 | 36.4% | 62.8% | −9.8 | 1.1% |
| Elderberry Elementary | 3 mi | 54 | 22.8% | 49.3% | −0.6 | 1.7% |
| Corona Elementary | 2.6 mi | 53 | 24.1% | 48.3% | +9.0 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 34 | 36 | #3671 | 14.5% | 39.5% | 25.0% | 0.1% | -30.6pp |
| 2024 | 41 | 48 | #2982 | 9.3% | 34.0% | 8.9% | 0.4% | +5.7pp |
| 2025 | 51 | 68 | #1833 | 22.1% | 38.4% | 7.0% | 0.4% | +7.7pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 3.3% | — |
| Male | — | 2.9% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 3.1% | — |
| English Learners | — | 0.0% | — |
| Homeless | — | 9.1% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 3.3% | — |
| All Students | — | 3.1% | — |
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