Panorama Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Panorama posts 53% meeting the standard, and 28.8% 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.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 29% | 53% | +48.4 | 15.4% | 0.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Panorama Elementary scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 60th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🚀 Growth Engine — Ask how the school tracks each kid's growth year to year, and what happens when a kid stalls instead of gaining.
Most rating sites would stop at “53% proficient” and call it done. Panorama deserves a closer read. The school sits in Daly City, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 60th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 53% of students meet the standard today, above the 46% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 38% | 39% | 88% | 62% | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 59% | 38% | 50% | 94% | 36% |
| Grade 5 | 64% | 39% | 26% | 65% | 81% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50% | 61% | 94% | 36% | 47% |
| Grade 4 | 47% | 50% | 68% | 88% | 43% |
| Grade 5 | 18% | 21% | 30% | 40% | 88% |
The 6 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 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
10 of 12 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (24.2% vs 10.0%). 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 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
$388 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 116 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), 81% 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 58
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 55
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 | 16 | 19% | 6% | 44% | 31% | 25% | −18 |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 29% | 7% | 14% | 50% | 36% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 16 | 50% | 31% | 19% | 0% | 81% | +33 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 17 | 12% | 35% | 35% | 18% | 47% | +1 |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 7% | 36% | 50% | 7% | 43% | +1 |
| Grade 5 | 16 | 56% | 31% | 6% | 6% | 88% | +52 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 16 | 25% | 56% | 19% | 0% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panorama Elementary ← | — | 46 | 28.8% | 53.2% | +48.4 | 0.4% |
| Brisbane Elementary | 2.8 mi | 63 | 39.3% | 67.0% | +0.0 | 0.2% |
| Miraloma Elementary | 2.4 mi | 57 | 44.3% | 69.2% | −12.0 | 0.9% |
| Ortega (Jose) Elementary | 1.7 mi | 56 | 37.3% | 59.7% | +0.5 | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 48 | 63 | #2038 | 22.3% | 46.0% | 19.1% | 1.4% | -3.1pp |
| 2022 | 29 | 30 | #4010 | 16.2% | 41.2% | 24.0% | 0.1% | -20.0pp |
| 2023 | 34 | 38 | #3571 | 36.3% | 59.5% | 24.9% | 2.4% | -62.9pp |
| 2024 | 60 | 83 | #989 | 35.0% | 64.1% | 17.3% | 0.4% | +4.0pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 60 | #2279 | 28.8% | 53.2% | 15.4% | 0.4% | +48.4pp |
- — Subgroup results are suppressed for small student counts (fewer than 15 tested), following CDE privacy rules.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 17.1% | 13.8% | -3.3pp |
| Male | 23.3% | 15.4% | -7.9pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 7.4% | +7.4pp |
| White | 17.4% | 9.1% | -8.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 25.5% | 20.8% | -4.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.3% | 25.0% | -2.3pp |
| English Learners | 28.0% | 17.4% | -10.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.8% | 24.4% | +3.6pp |
| All Students | 19.9% | 14.5% | -5.4pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 18.2% | — |
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