Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park posts 41% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 50 | 22% | 41% | — | — | 35.9% | 0.8% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park scores 50 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 63rd percentile of 2,160 California high 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 “41% proficient” and call it done. Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park deserves a closer read. The school sits in Irwindale, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park's low-income kids hit 52.7% 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.
As a charter, Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 32nd to the 63rd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 600 high schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 41% of students meet the standard today, above the 21% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | 13% | 25% | — | — | — |
| Grade 11 | 37% | 45% | 41% | 47% | 57% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | 2% | 4% | — | — | — |
| Grade 11 | 5% | 7% | 12% | 12% | 25% |
Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park's most underrated number
52.7% 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 4 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside 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 Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park in Irwindale, 52.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.3% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park outperforms its district average for low-income students by 12.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (59.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 9.4 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 55 students tested.
5 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. 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
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 219 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
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.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 54
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 60
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 11 | 67 | 22% | 34% | 28% | 15% | 57% | +10 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 67 | 21% | 4% | 16% | 58% | 25% | +2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 16 | 6% | 13% | 81% | 0% |
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 | 55 | 52.7% | +12 | +15 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 44 | 59.1% | +20 | +20 |
| White | 19 | 47.4% | +9 | −14 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunities for Learning - Baldwin Park ← | — | 50 | 21.6% | 41.0% | — | 0.8% |
| Arroyo High | 1.8 mi | 57 | 26.5% | 50.7% | — | 4.1% |
| Sierra Vista High | 0.8 mi | 54 | 24.6% | 52.2% | — | 7.5% |
| Bassett Senior High | 2.2 mi | 51 | 22.9% | 42.0% | — | 4.4% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 36 | 32 | #1399 | 4.3% | 20.8% | 14.0% | 0.1% | — |
| 2022 | 34 | 30 | #1462 | 6.8% | 25.9% | 64.1% | 0.1% | — |
| 2023 | 37 | 35 | #1390 | 9.9% | 26.3% | 46.8% | 0.7% | — |
| 2024 | 40 | 39 | #1311 | 10.8% | 29.4% | 39.1% | 1.0% | — |
| 2025 | 50 | 63 | #796 | 21.6% | 41.0% | 35.9% | 0.8% | — |
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