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OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy

Orange, CA · Grades K-12 · 229 students · Orange Unified

Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.

71% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 49% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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PrincipalJulie Lucas
GradesK-12
Enrollment229 students

Math

49%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

71%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

229

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

20%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

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0%25%50%75%100%2022: 35%2023: 31%2024: 35%2025: 49%2022: 51%2023: 50%2024: 50%2025: 71%20222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 35%2023: 31%2024: 35%2025: 49%2022: 51%2023: 50%2024: 50%2025: 71%2022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
202235%51%
202331%50%
202435%50%
202549%71%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2022 to 2025

Climbed from the 66th to the 86th percentile since 2022 — past roughly 400 middle schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “59% proficient” and call it done. OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy deserves a closer read. Two in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy's low-income kids hit 52.8% 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.

113 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy scores 58 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 86th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2022 · 66th percentile · Scope Score 40 of 1002023 · 63rd percentile · Scope Score 37 of 1002024 · 69th percentile · Scope Score 44 of 1002025 · 86th percentile · Scope Score 58 of 100
ELAOrange(Maintained)MathYellow(Increased Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 550%44%——
Grade 651%50%79%82%
Grade 7—53%32%53%
Grade 8—50%17%65%
Grade 1165%44%53%55%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 530%38%——
Grade 635%26%43%33%
Grade 7—47%35%64%
Grade 8—35%25%56%
Grade 115%17%20%42%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

More than half of students here meet the standard. One in four clear it by a lot.

ELA59% met or exceeded
Exceeded 23%Met 36%Nearly Met 22%Not Met 19%
Math48% met or exceeded
Exceeded 34%Met 14%Nearly Met 21%Not Met 31%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2022–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school5829%59%—19.6%0.8%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%—18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope5839
% Exceeded29%17%
% Met+59%40%
Growth——
Absence19.6%18.1%
Suspension0.8%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 96th percentile of middle schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California middle schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +20 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 95th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.95th pctile · +20 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +27 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 97th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.97th pctile · +27 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard ahead of the same group statewide.

52.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. This comparison does not tell us what caused the difference.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 54% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 54%, district —, state 40%54%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 49%, district 38%, state 32%49% · −5 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 54%, district 53%, state 44%54% · +0 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 47%, district 39%, state 32%47% · −7 vs school
MaleMale: this school 50%, district 53%, state 42%50% · −4 vs school

8 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 16 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher16 · district 25
Teaching staff16 teachers
Avg. experience14.0 years
Fully credentialed90%
PrincipalJulie Lucas
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Teacher salary schedule$65,014 – $136,010
Principal salary$164,019 – $197,386
Superintendent salary$383,484

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (31.9% vs 13.8%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 19.6%, district 14.0%, state 18.1%19.6% · +1.5pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.8%, district —, state 3.6%0.8% · −2.8pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–613.8%
Grades 7–831.9%
Grades 9–1218.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $19,365 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $19,365, CA average $14,491$19,365 · spent at this school
District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,412 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 59%Instruction support 14%Student services 12%Administration 5%Buildings & maintenance 9%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,360 per pupil
2019$11,815 per pupil
2018$11,918 per pupil
2017$11,434 per pupil
2016$11,193 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Two in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 229 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 43% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino61.1% · district 57.7% · CA 56.1%
White27.5% · district 22.3% · CA 19.9%
Asian3.5% · district 10.4% · CA 10.2%
Black1.8% · district 1.2% · CA 4.8%
Other6.1% · district 8.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch43.2% · CA 64%
Median income$138K · CA $85K
Median home value$994K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+45% · CA 35%
ZIP population36,271
Median age41 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
OUSD EDGE Virtual AcademyPublicStrong29%59%School being viewed
Hewes MiddlePublicSolid27%57%1.6 mi
Columbus Tustin MiddlePublicSolid16%35%2.4 mi
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Is OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy a good middle school?
OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy has a Scope Score of 58 out of 100, placing it in the 86th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #296 statewide. 28.7% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 11.5 percentage points above the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 59.0% of students at OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 28.7% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 30.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 28.7% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 100 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy rank in California?
OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy ranks #296 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 86th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy?
19.6% of students at OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 0.8%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy compare to other schools in Orange?
OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy scores 58/100 (86th percentile) among California middle schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 229 students. Use the schools in Orange page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy in Orange, 52.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 46.3% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 6.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (41.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (52.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 13.0 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 36 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

How fast English learners gain fluency carries this score. The test levels clear the state's too.

47.4% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard28.7%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded59.0%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism19.6%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.8%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)47.4%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+3.0pp+1.5pp—

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy: reading the evidence

OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy posts 59% meeting the standard, and 28.7% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy is ranked #296 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard28.7%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded59.0%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism19.6%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.8%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)47.4%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+3.0pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 17.2% · index 63 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 40.0% · index 65 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 18.1% · index 49 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▲ 3.9pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.2pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 78 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↑ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 35——————
Grade 46——————
Grade 56——————
Grade 61118%64%9%9%82%+36
Grade 71520%33%20%27%53%+6
Grade 82313%52%26%9%65%+19
Grade 114726%30%23%21%55%+7
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 35——————
Grade 46——————
Grade 56——————
Grade 61233%0%42%25%33%−1
Grade 71436%29%7%29%64%+31
Grade 82552%4%32%12%56%+24
Grade 114529%13%13%44%42%+18

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide7718%25%48%9%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged3652.8%+6+15
Hispanic/Latino5052.0%+6+13
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
OUSD EDGE Virtual Academy ←—5828.7%59.0%+3.0pp—0.8%
Hewes Middle1.6 mi4727.0%56.7%−14.0pp—1.2%
Columbus Tustin Middle2.4 mi4016.4%35.2%+9.5pp—11.2%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20224066#72616.6%43.3%35.2%1.1%—
20233763#79115.3%43.5%35.5%1.2%+4.3pp
20244469#65820.8%38.3%15.7%1.0%-39.9pp
20255886#29628.7%59.0%19.6%0.8%+3.0pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female—20.2%—
Male—19.5%—
Asian—18.2%—
Hispanic/Latino—21.4%—
White—17.2%—
Students with Disabilities—19.2%—
English Learners—37.8%—
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged—27.4%—
All Students—19.8%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+2028Exceptional+2730Exceptional
English Only+1523not categorised+2324not categorised
Hispanic or Latino+2318Exceptional+2919Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+1413Accelerated+3815Exceptional

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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