Orange Center Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Orange Center posts 35% meeting the standard and 17.3% 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 | 41 | 17% | 35% | -15.2 | 22.1% | 2.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Orange Center Elementary scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 45th 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. Orange Center deserves a closer read. The school sits in Fresno, 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 33rd to the 45th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 600 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 24% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 9% | 19% | 22% | 54% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 31% | 32% | 33% | 17% | 58% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 31% | 43% | 45% | 32% |
| Grade 6 | 32% | 16% | 31% | 43% | 42% |
| Grade 7 | 40% | 47% | 36% | 50% | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 62% | 31% | 54% | 39% | 64% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 18% | 26% | 32% | 46% | 37% |
| Grade 4 | 31% | 11% | 36% | 11% | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 9% | 29% | 24% | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 24% | 4% | 17% | 24% | 40% |
| Grade 7 | 15% | 17% | 8% | 10% | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 12% | 13% | 23% | 11% | 10% |
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 10.2pp across grades; the floor slips 6.2pp. 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 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 Orange Center Elementary in Fresno, 44.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 44.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Orange Center Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (24.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (43.4% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 151 students tested.
7 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 falls by 6.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -6.2pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (36.2% vs 14.0%). 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 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
What gets spent here
$3,191 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 261 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 15% 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 47
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 41
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 26 | 23% | 15% | 35% | 27% | 38% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 38% | 21% | 17% | 25% | 58% | +14 |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 13% | 19% | 16% | 52% | 32% | −16 |
| Grade 6 | 19 | 16% | 26% | 26% | 32% | 42% | −4 |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 4% | 26% | 43% | 26% | 30% | −17 |
| Grade 8 | 28 | 4% | 61% | 32% | 4% | 64% | +18 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 15% | 22% | 30% | 33% | 37% | −9 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 13% | 21% | 38% | 29% | 33% | −8 |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 3% | 10% | 32% | 55% | 13% | −22 |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 30% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 40% | +5 |
| Grade 7 | 25 | 0% | 20% | 16% | 64% | 20% | −14 |
| Grade 8 | 29 | 7% | 3% | 45% | 45% | 10% | −22 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 59 | 2% | 14% | 78% | 7% |
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 | 151 | 44.4% | +0 | +6 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 129 | 43.4% | +0 | +5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Center Elementary ← | — | 41 | 17.3% | 35.4% | −15.2 | 2.6% |
| W.E.B. DuBois Public Charter | 2 mi | 55 | 9.4% | 29.7% | +42.0 | 0.3% |
| Ezekiel Balderas Elementary | 3.3 mi | 50 | 16.7% | 36.5% | +0.9 | 1.5% |
| Washington Colony Elementary | 2.3 mi | 36 | 21.0% | 40.3% | −3.1 | 1.8% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 36 | 33 | #3692 | 5.6% | 23.8% | 7.8% | 6.2% | +13.7pp |
| 2022 | 30 | 33 | #3819 | 7.4% | 21.3% | 47.5% | 4.5% | -1.9pp |
| 2023 | 36 | 44 | #3228 | 9.1% | 32.5% | 32.8% | 5.8% | +8.6pp |
| 2024 | 43 | 53 | #2698 | 7.9% | 32.9% | 23.1% | 3.9% | -15.6pp |
| 2025 | 41 | 45 | #3131 | 17.3% | 35.4% | 22.1% | 2.6% | -15.2pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.5% | 18.4% | +8.9pp |
| Male | 5.9% | 27.5% | +21.6pp |
| Asian | 4.8% | 12.0% | +7.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 8.6% | 24.1% | +15.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 4.0% | 22.2% | +18.2pp |
| English Learners | 3.5% | 29.4% | +25.9pp |
| Military-Connected | 8.7% | 30.8% | +22.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 7.9% | 22.9% | +15.0pp |
| All Students | 7.7% | 22.9% | +15.2pp |
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