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Pacific View Charter

Oceanside, CA · Grades TK-12 · 562 students · Oceanside Unified

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29% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 17% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

Math

17%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

29%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

562

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

8%

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%2019: 12%2022: 12%2023: 6%2024: 15%2025: 17%2019: 32%2022: 30%2023: 27%2024: 19%2025: 29%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 12%2022: 12%2023: 6%2024: 15%2025: 17%2019: 32%2022: 30%2023: 27%2024: 19%2025: 29%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201912%32%
202212%30%
20236%27%
202415%19%
202517%29%

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
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in five of students here meet the standard. 4% clear it by a lot.

ELA35% met or exceeded
Exceeded 8%Met 27%Nearly Met 34%Not Met 31%
Math21% met or exceeded
Exceeded 7%Met 14%Nearly Met 20%Not Met 59%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school234%19%—7.9%0.8%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%—18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2339
% Exceeded4%17%
% Met+19%40%
Growth——
Absence7.9%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 splits here — the 45th percentile in reading against the 25th in math, among 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 a little below the middle of California middle schools in reading, and the 25th in math. 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: 0 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 45th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.45th pctile · 0 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −8 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 25th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.25th pctile · −8 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Pacific View Charter in Oceanside, 31.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Pacific View Charter trails its district average for low-income students by 3.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (18.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (33.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 17.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 201 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 26% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 26%, district —, state 40%26%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 25%, district 30%, state 32%25% · −2 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 25%, district 29%, state 32%25% · −1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 28%, district 39%, state 44%28% · +1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 27%, district 35%, state 42%27% · +1 vs school
HomelessHomeless: this school 27%, district 12%, state 22%27% · +0 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 10%, district 11%, state 15%10% · −16 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 34%, district 53%, state 56%34% · +8 vs school

7 of 15 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.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 9.7pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +3.0pp.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students79 studentsLow-income students, reading: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 79 students.−2 pts · +1 vs typical
English Only72 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 72 students.−3 pts · −3 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students70 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −4 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 70 students.−4 pts · −2 vs typical
Math
Low-income students80 studentsLow-income students, math: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 80 students.−8 pts · −3 vs typical
English Only72 studentsEnglish Only, math: −18 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 72 students.−18 pts · −15 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students71 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 71 students.−7 pts · −1 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 3 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

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 19 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher19 · district 23
Teaching staff31 teachers
Avg. experience13.4 years
Fully credentialed30%
First-year teachers3%
PrincipalErin Gorence
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Teacher salary schedule$53,318 – $118,979
Principal salary$153,348 – $183,517
Superintendent salary$300,606

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 7.9%, district 23.1%, state 18.1%7.9% · −10.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.8%, district —, state 3.6%0.8% · −2.8pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

Its district spends $14,594 per student, about the same as 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: $14,594, CA average $14,491$14,594 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,901 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 60%Instruction support 11%Student services 10%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 11%

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$14,594 per pupil
2019$13,384 per pupil
2018$13,154 per pupil
2017$11,020 per pupil
2016$10,838 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 22% 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 Latino69.8% · district 57.1% · CA 56.1%
White14.4% · district 24.8% · CA 19.9%
Asian0.4% · district 1.7% · CA 10.2%
Black5.7% · district 3.7% · CA 4.8%
Other9.8% · district 12.7% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 51.6% · Male 47.3% · Non-binary 1.1%
Free or reduced lunch77.6% · CA 64%
Median income$106K · CA $85K
Median home value$773K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+41% · CA 35%
ZIP population53,616
Median age40 years

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

Culture & philosophy

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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

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Pacific View Charteralternative comparison groupCharterSolid4%19%School being viewed
Calavera Hills MiddlePublicStrong22%53%2.9 mi
Cesar Chavez MiddlePublicDeveloping13%36%2.2 mi
Martin Luther King Jr. MiddlePublicDeveloping15%40%0.4 mi
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Is Pacific View Charter a good middle school?
Pacific View Charter has a Scope Score of 23 out of 100, placing it in the 55th percentile of California alternative middle schools and ranked #14 in that group. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. 4.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 13.1 percentage points below 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 Pacific View Charter's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 19.4% of students at Pacific View Charter met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 4.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 15.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 4.1% 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. 246 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Pacific View Charter rank among California alternative schools?
Pacific View Charter ranks #14 among California alternative middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 55th percentile. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. 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 Pacific View Charter?
7.9% of students at Pacific View Charter are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than 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 Pacific View Charter compare to other schools in Oceanside?
Pacific View Charter scores 23/100 (55th percentile) among California alternative middle schools. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. 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 562 students. Use the schools in Oceanside page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Pacific View Charter serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Pacific View Charter in Oceanside, 31.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Pacific View Charter trails its district average for low-income students by 3.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (18.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (33.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 17.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 201 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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How the Scope Score is calculated

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What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard4.1%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded19.4%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism7.9%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.8%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+19.0pp+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

Pacific View Charter: reading the evidence

Pacific View Charter posts 19% meeting the standard and 4.1% exceeding it, against 40% and 17.2% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

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

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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.

Pacific View Charter is ranked #14 of California alternative middle schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard4.1%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded19.4%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism7.9%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.8%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+19.0pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 36 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 65 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.9pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.3pp lower vs 2024
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 38——————
Grade 4———————
Grade 57——————
Grade 6280%18%21%61%18%−28
Grade 7457%11%33%49%18%−30
Grade 8504%32%44%20%36%−10
Grade 1112510%33%33%25%42%−6
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 38——————
Grade 4———————
Grade 57——————
Grade 6270%4%22%74%4%−31
Grade 7452%16%20%62%18%−16
Grade 85112%12%25%51%24%−9
Grade 111256%15%17%62%21%−3

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
Schoolwide1843%18%71%8%

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 Disadvantaged20131.5%−3−7
Hispanic/Latino18033.0%−2−6
Students with Disabilities2412.5%+1−4
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
Pacific View Charter ←—234.1%19.4%+19.0pp—0.8%
Calavera Hills Middle2.9 mi5022.5%53.4%+6.8pp—4.2%
Cesar Chavez Middle2.2 mi3512.9%36.1%+8.2pp—7.1%
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle0.4 mi3215.3%40.0%+0.8pp—6.9%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20192067#83.8%19.9%13.5%2.6%+1.7pp
20222466#105.5%19.7%8.4%1.2%-7.7pp
20232472#85.8%19.7%7.2%1.0%—
20242777#65.7%20.7%8.9%1.1%-4.0pp
20252355#144.1%19.4%7.9%0.8%+19.0pp
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.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — This school's rank and percentile are computed against California alternative middle schools, not California's comprehensive campuses — see the Enrollment Axiom at /methodology#peer-class.
  • — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students090Average−891Moderate
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−279Average−880Moderate
English Only−372not categorised−1872not categorised
Hispanic or Latino−470Average−771Moderate
Homeless Youth−1928Moderate−1628Moderate
Students with Disabilities−1919Moderate−719Moderate
English Learner+911Accelerated+2512Exceptional

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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