Orangevale Open K-8: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Orangevale Open K-8 pairs 52% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 53 | 21% | 52% | +3.6 | 12.3% | 1.5% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Orangevale Open K-8 scores 53 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 72nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “52% proficient” and call it done. Orangevale Open K-8 deserves a closer read. The school sits in Fair Oaks, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Orangevale Open K-8's low-income kids hit 49.3% 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
Has stayed near the 72nd percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 52% meet the standard today, versus 59% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 60% | 58% | 49% | 66% | 45% |
| Grade 4 | 70% | 67% | 61% | 52% | 65% |
| Grade 5 | 64% | 72% | 63% | 66% | 63% |
| Grade 6 | 71% | 63% | 65% | 45% | 52% |
| Grade 7 | 65% | 62% | 58% | 45% | 56% |
| Grade 8 | 59% | 60% | 57% | 45% | 48% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 72% | 60% | 42% | 60% | 51% |
| Grade 4 | 54% | 66% | 58% | 56% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 36% | 55% | 39% | 34% | 40% |
| Grade 6 | 54% | 44% | 48% | 41% | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 63% | 44% | 61% | 63% | 42% |
| Grade 8 | 49% | 46% | 41% | 52% | 53% |
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 rises 10.9pp across grades; the floor rises 18.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Orangevale Open K-8's most underrated number
49.3% 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 Orangevale Open K-8 in Fair Oaks, 49.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Orangevale Open K-8 outperforms its district average for low-income students by 20.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (43.4% Math proficient); White students (57.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 4.9 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 144 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 rises by 25.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of TK/K students (21.7% vs 5.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$395 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), 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 59
Nearby Middle Schools
2 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.
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 | 51 | 12% | 33% | 31% | 24% | 45% | +2 |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 36% | 30% | 15% | 20% | 65% | +21 |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 23% | 40% | 20% | 17% | 63% | +15 |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 17% | 35% | 27% | 22% | 52% | +5 |
| Grade 7 | 87 | 18% | 38% | 17% | 26% | 56% | +9 |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 11% | 36% | 21% | 31% | 48% | +1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 51 | 12% | 39% | 27% | 22% | 51% | +5 |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 24% | 26% | 36% | 14% | 50% | +8 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 20% | 21% | 35% | 24% | 40% | +5 |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 17% | 18% | 25% | 40% | 35% | −0 |
| Grade 7 | 83 | 23% | 19% | 19% | 39% | 42% | +8 |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 34% | 19% | 32% | 15% | 53% | +21 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 147 | 15% | 36% | 48% | 1% |
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 | 144 | 49.3% | +20 | +11 |
| White | 297 | 57.9% | +11 | −4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 61 | 50.8% | +16 | +12 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orangevale Open K-8 ← | — | 53 | 20.9% | 52.5% | +3.6 | 1.5% |
| Oakview Community Elementary | 2 mi | 63 | 26.1% | 53.0% | +16.9 | 5.2% |
| Pershing Elementary | 0.8 mi | 60 | 38.9% | 61.4% | +8.4 | 1.5% |
| Green Oaks Fundamental Elementary | 2.1 mi | 55 | 28.1% | 61.9% | +3.9 | 1.8% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 49 | 65 | #1941 | 26.8% | 59.4% | 7.1% | 1.6% | -16.0pp |
| 2022 | 55 | 82 | #1017 | 27.9% | 63.1% | 23.0% | 1.7% | +4.4pp |
| 2023 | 52 | 76 | #1367 | 22.9% | 52.0% | 16.9% | 0.8% | +5.6pp |
| 2024 | 50 | 69 | #1777 | 29.0% | 55.8% | 11.3% | 2.2% | -13.0pp |
| 2025 | 53 | 72 | #1627 | 20.9% | 52.5% | 12.3% | 1.5% | +3.6pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.7% | 11.1% | +5.4pp |
| Male | 8.2% | 12.7% | +4.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.0% | 11.7% | +4.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 2.8% | 12.0% | +9.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 8.1% | 13.6% | +5.5pp |
| English Learners | 33.3% | 13.6% | -19.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.1% | 16.4% | +2.3pp |
| All Students | 7.1% | 11.9% | +4.8pp |
| Asian | — | 18.8% | — |
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