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Paradise Valley Engineering Academy — Rating & test scores

1400 La Crosse Drive, Morgan Hill · 442 students · Grades TK–5

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Scope Score 79

SolidScope Score · 67th percentile. Higher than 67 in 100 of the 5,726 California public elementary schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Above California in English, well above in math: 54% and 57% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5, spring 2026, against 46% and 42%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 203 in English, 201 in math
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

Overview

Is this school a good elementary school?

Solid. Paradise Valley Engineering Academy is higher than most California elementary schools on test results and progress in both subjects. Paradise Valley Engineering Academy is lower than most on attendance.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced6854%
Math, Proficient or Advanced7757%
English, Advanced7029%
Math, Advanced7831%

Progress in a year, 2025

English75+10 pts
Math75+11 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance4317 in 100
Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s place among California elementary schools, out of 100Morgan Hill Unified’s other elementary schoolsBar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

On spring 2025 tests, students in grades 4 and 5 scored higher than California students who had the same scores the year before, in English (+10 pts) and math (+11 pts). The state calls both results Accelerated.

Each bar is Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s place among 5,726 California public elementary schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 3–5. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Source for the sentence
CDE growth model, 2025. Students with scores in both years in grades 4 and 5: 120. Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

In its own words

What does this school say about itself?

We haven’t read Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s website yet. Until we do, the school’s own site is the best place to hear it in its own words.

Open paradise.mhusd.org (opens in a new tab)

Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored 10 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 11 points higher, which the state calls Accelerated.

English

+10

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Hispanic or Latino50+2 points
Low-income47+5 points
White39+23 points
Students with disabilities18−19 points
English learners15+6 points

Math

+11

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Hispanic or Latino50+9 points
Low-income47+10 points
White39+13 points
Students with disabilities18+12 points
English learners15+11 points

Grades 4 and 5, 2025, 120 students with scores in both years. Faded rows have fewer than 40 students. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 10 points above that expected score, and in math 11 points above it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

SchoolScope elementary standardized cohort gain: approximately 45th percentile on a calibrated reference scale, not an empirical school rank. This score compares school-level grade groups across English and math, not matched students in California's separate growth model.

Nearby

How does it compare with schools nearby?

2 of the 7 elementary schools nearby have a higher Scope Score than Paradise Valley Engineering Academy. Each school is compared with every California elementary school.

Scope Score

8 elementary schools within 3.2 miles, highest score first. Under each name is how the school takes students.

  1. NordstromNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7968th
  2. Jackson Academy of Music and Math (JAMM)Neighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7967th
  3. Paradise Valley Engineering AcademyScope Score 7967th
  4. El Toro Health Science AcademyNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7441st
  5. Voices College-Bound Language Academy at Morgan HillCharter · its own lotteryScope Score 7336th
  6. BarrettNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7233rd
  7. San Martin Gwinn Environmental Science AcademyNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7126th
  8. P. A. Walsh STEAM AcademyNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7126th
Morgan Hill UnifiedCharter

A charter school takes applications from any family and holds a lottery when it has more applicants than seats.

Scope Score from California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 3–5. Distance is a straight line from this campus and is not an attendance boundary. See these schools on the map

Scores and family income

Further right, more students are from low-income families. Higher up, more students scored Proficient or Advanced in English.

25%50%0%25%50%75%100%

6 of 8 schools are named on the chart. Point at a dot or tap it to read any school.

English results: California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 3–5. Low-income is the share of students who qualified for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes.

Schools like it

How does this school compare with schools like it?

Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s Scope Score is 79. 521 California elementary schools, counting Paradise Valley Engineering Academy, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 84. Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s result is higher than 81 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 521

  1. Students from low-income families: 24%

    Scope Score 99Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 23%

    Scope Score 99Strong · 99th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 27%

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 20%

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 28%

    Scope Score 97Strong · 99th percentile

521 California public elementary schools where 20% to 32% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public elementary school we score where 20% to 32% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s share. The count includes Paradise Valley Engineering Academy. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 58% to 54% and math stayed at 57%.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grades 3–5. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202649%62%54%Paradise Valley Engineering AcademyThis school47%Morgan Hill UnifiedDistrict46%CaliforniaCalifornia

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202643%59%57%Paradise Valley Engineering AcademyThis school42%Morgan Hill UnifiedDistrict42%CaliforniaCalifornia

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Morgan Hill Unified’s line combines its 9 elementary schools we score (our calculation). Faint lines are its other schools. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now. Morgan Hill Unified’s figure weights each school by the students it tested.

English, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringParadise Valley Engineering AcademyMorgan Hill UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201762%49%45%282
201863%50%49%241
201959%50%50%223
202255%47%45%167
202350%44%44%175
202460%46%45%167
202558%47%46%178
202654%47%46%203
Math, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringParadise Valley Engineering AcademyMorgan Hill UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201759%43%40%281
201863%45%42%241
201961%44%44%223
202249%39%38%167
202351%39%40%175
202461%42%41%166
202557%40%41%178
202657%42%42%201

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Above California in English (reading and writing); well above it in math.

English

54%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

24222529
Morgan Hill Unified47%California46%

Math

57%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

26172631
Morgan Hill Unified42%California42%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 54% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 57% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced49%62%51%
Advanced25%30%30%
Proficient24%32%21%
Developing level22%22%24%
Minimal29%16%25%
Tested595688
California44%46%49%
Difference+5+16+2

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced56%73%47%
Advanced31%35%29%
Proficient25%38%18%
Developing level17%22%15%
Minimal27%5%38%
Tested595587
California47%42%37%
Difference+9+31+10

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3–5 · This school29%25%22%24%203
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
English, grades 3–5 · Morgan Hill Unified22%25%20%33%1,779
Math, grades 3–5 · This school31%26%17%26%201
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701
Math, grades 3–5 · Morgan Hill Unified19%23%25%33%1,774

Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined: 203 tested in English, 201 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

White students are the largest group here, at 37% of students. 88 of 505 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

17in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (88 of 505 students).

At the average Morgan Hill Unified elementary school: 15 in 100. At the average California elementary school: 17 in 100.

Suspensions: 2.9% of students were suspended at least once (15 of 512). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Students, 2024–25

442

students in grades TK–5.

White 37%Hispanic or Latino 35%Two or more races 11%Asian 8%Not reported 6%

Family income

26%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 114 of 442. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

21

teachers, with 14 years of experience on average.

5% were in their first year.

81% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

43%

of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (15 of 35 students).

Morgan Hill Unified: 48%. California: 47%.

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Sources: California Department of Education and the California School Dashboard. Each tile names its year.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
White37%
Hispanic or Latino35%
Two or more races11%
Asian8%
Not reported6%
Black or African American—
Filipino—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. English learner progress: California School Dashboard, 2026 . Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 12.8 of 15.8 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Four student groups at Paradise Valley Engineering Academy have test results. Each bar compares one group with the same group across California.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • White73 tested67%California 60%
  • Two or more races39 tested62%California 60%
  • Low-income73 tested36%California 36%
  • Hispanic or Latino71 tested34%California 36%

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–5 English, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 3–5 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Morgan Hill Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 73 tested in English, 72 in math
English36%+927%036%
Math38%+1622%+731%
White · 73 tested in English, 72 in math
English67%+958%+760%
Math68%+959%+1256%
Hispanic or Latino · 71 tested
English34%+430%−236%
Math40%+1525%+931%
Two or more races · 39 tested
English62%+656%+260%
Math59%+950%+455%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Morgan Hill Unified, and across California. No group that is behind across California does 10 or more points better here.

English learners and students with disabilities: fewer than 30 tested here. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Paradise Valley Engineering Academy. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
  2. The questions are about the school, never a person.No question asks about a named teacher or staff member.
  3. Answers are never part of the Scope Score.They sit beside the state’s records and do not change a school’s score.

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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

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The school day

What is the school day like?

Paradise Valley Engineering Academy has transitional kindergarten (TK). Our records do not hold school hours or before- and after-school care yet. Ask the office.

Transitional kindergarten (TK), 2025–26

38

TK students in 2025–26.

TK is California’s free public program for four-year-olds.

TK count: California Department of Education, Census Day enrollment, 2025–26. Find TK schools near you

Money

How much is spent on each student here?

$18,168 for each student in 2024–25. California’s elementary schools spent $20,288 for each student.

$18,168

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$8,207
The school’s share of district office costs
$9,961
Of the total, from federal funds
$445
  • Paradise Valley Engineering Academy$18,168
  • Morgan Hill Unified elementary schools$17,897
  • California elementary schools$20,288

The district and California figures combine their elementary schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 5,053 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

The neighborhood

What is the area around this school like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 95037. They are not figures for the families at Paradise Valley Engineering Academy.

Typical household income in a year

$163,182

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 95037.

Typical home value
$1,243,900
People who live in this ZIP code
51,943
Typical age
39.2 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
46%

What you can do

Who can act on this school’s results?

Morgan Hill Unified’s board decides Paradise Valley Engineering Academy’s plan.

How to take part

  1. Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  2. Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  3. Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  4. Read the midyear report, due by February 28.

State support

The state hasn’t placed Paradise Valley Engineering Academy in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

Extra state help for the district

The state is giving Morgan Hill Unified extra help in 2026. It qualified on the 2025 California School Dashboard. The county office must help the district for at least three years, including a review of its yearly plan.

Extra help for Morgan Hill Unified: CDE’s assistance status file for the 2025 California School Dashboard. Source 

Reading screening in kindergarten through grade 2

California law requires schools to screen kindergartners through second graders for reading difficulties every year, with some exceptions. You get notice at least 15 days before, results within 45 days, and can opt out in writing.

Kindergartners can’t be screened before the 91st school day; transitional kindergarten isn’t covered.

If screening shows your child may be at risk for reading difficulties, the school must provide supports. That result isn’t a diagnosis, and screening can’t be used to delay a special-education evaluation.

Ask how many K–2 students screening found at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help.

California Education Code § 53008. Source 

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 5 questions to Paradise Valley Engineering Academy. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What does the school try before a suspension, and who talks with the family?2.9% suspended at least once, 2025–26 (15 of 512 students); average California elementary school: 1.6%
  2. What extra help do Hispanic students get, and how do you know it’s working?34% of Hispanic students scored Proficient or Advanced in English, grades 3–5, spring 2026 (71 students tested); the same group across California: 36%
  3. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

What comes after this school, and how do I get in?

Ask Morgan Hill Unified which school serves your address.

  1. Elementary · this school
    Paradise Valley Engineering Academy
    Grades TK–5Scope Score 79Solid · 67th percentile
  2. Middle
    Lewis H. Britton Middle
    Scope Score 76Solid · 54th percentile · 2026Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)
  3. High
    Live Oak High
    Scope Score 75Developing · 47th percentile · 2025Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

These links come from past records and from distance. Confirm your child’s school with the district. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Middle-school links

  • Lewis H. Britton Middle

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    Scope Score 76 · Solid · 54th percentile · middle · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

High-school links

  • Live Oak High

    Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

    Scope Score 75 · Developing · 47th percentile · high · 2025

  • Ann Sobrato High

    Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

    Scope Score 83 · Strong · 80th percentile · high · 2025

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

Where the path ends: Live Oak High
Live Oak HighScope Score 75 · Developing · 47th percentile · 2025estimated path

An inferred path through a middle-school overlap points to Live Oak High. UC records 22 enrollees from Live Oak High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 22 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. If a child starting here today later attended Live Oak High, that would be around 2036, and a school can change a lot in 10 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 75% of the students who finished high school at Live Oak High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

22 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 22 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Live Oak High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

Where it is

Where is this school?

Address
1400 La Crosse Drive, Morgan Hill 95037Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Jennifer LashierAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated June 30, 2025.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 7 common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Morgan Hill Unified which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Paradise Valley Engineering Academy a good elementary school?

Paradise Valley Engineering Academy has a Scope Score of 79. It scored higher than 67 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools (Solid, 67th percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 17 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 15 in 100 at the average Morgan Hill Unified elementary school. 2.9% of students (15 of 512) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored 10 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 11 points higher, which the state calls Accelerated.

  • Included in this measure: 120 students

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 36% of low-income students in grades 3–5 at Paradise Valley Engineering Academy in Morgan Hill scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 36% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

Where does it lead?

In the 2015–16 federal attendance-boundary survey, most of Paradise Valley Engineering Academy's attendance area fell inside the attendance area of Lewis H. Britton Middle. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education’s School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary doesn’t guarantee placement; confirm your address with the district.

  • Lewis H. Britton Middle: Scope Score 76, Solid, 54th percentile among California’s regular public and charter middle schools, 2026 results

See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #1,848 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score · #4 of 9 in Morgan Hill Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math30%5842%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math56%6023%
5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children)+73 scale-score pts4520%
Chronically absent17 in 100495%
Suspension rate2.9% (15 of 512)405%
English learners: top level13%455%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–267967#1848California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–198 in 1001.6% (7 of 436)+7
2021–22not on filenot on file−15
2022–23not on filenot on file−2
2023–2418 in 1000.7% (3 of 425)−6
2024–2518 in 1001.7% (8 of 475)0
2025–2617 in 1002.9% (15 of 512)−3

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English20329%54%
2026 · Math20131%57%
2025 · English17833%58%
2025 · Math17831%57%
2024 · English16735%60%
2024 · Math16627%61%
2023 · English17526%50%
2023 · Math17527%51%
2022 · English16726%55%
2022 · Math16725%49%
2019 · English22334%59%
2019 · Math22337%61%
2018 · English24139%63%
2018 · Math24139%63%
2017 · English28234%62%
2017 · Math28133%59%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English4955%
2025 · Grade 4 · English7557%
2025 · Grade 5 · English5461%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math4957%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math7561%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math5452%
2024 · Grade 3 · English6958%
2024 · Grade 4 · English4963%
2024 · Grade 5 · English4959%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math6865%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math4967%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math4951%
2023 · Grade 3 · English5744%
2023 · Grade 4 · English5056%
2023 · Grade 5 · English6850%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math5753%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math5060%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math6843%
2022 · Grade 3 · English5662%
2022 · Grade 4 · English6250%
2022 · Grade 5 · English4953%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math5657%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math6252%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math4937%
2019 · Grade 3 · English7547%
2019 · Grade 4 · English5467%
2019 · Grade 5 · English9464%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math7560%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math5469%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math9456%
2018 · Grade 3 · English5267%
2018 · Grade 4 · English8967%
2018 · Grade 5 · English10056%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math5277%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math8969%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math10050%
2017 · Grade 3 · English8964%
2017 · Grade 4 · English10955%
2017 · Grade 5 · English8469%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math8869%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math10954%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math8456%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide8817%27%43%12%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income7336%+90
White7367%+9+7
Hispanic or Latino7134%+4−2
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students+10120Accelerated+11120Accelerated
English-only students+1198not categorized+1298not categorized
Hispanic or Latino+250Average+950Accelerated
Low-income+547Accelerated+1047Accelerated
White+2339Exceptional+1339Accelerated
Students with disabilities−1918Moderate+1218Accelerated
English learners+615Accelerated+1115Accelerated
Two or more races−1814Moderate+914Accelerated
English learners only−211not categorized+1411not categorized

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 5. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 5 against the same school’s grade 3 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 5 in 2026 against grade 3 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 3
35%
exceeded standard · 58% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 69 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 5
30%
Advanced · 51% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 88 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 69 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English+10 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 5

120 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +10 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math+11 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 5

120 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, math: +11 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 5, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 18 in 100 → 2025–26 · 17 in 100 · −1 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 1.7% (8 of 475) → 2025–26 · 2.9% (15 of 512) · +1.2 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female9 in 10016 in 100+7 in 100
Male6 in 10019 in 100+13 in 100
Asian2 of 312 of 38—
Filipino0 of 11——
Hispanic or Latino10 in 10023 in 100+13 in 100
Two or more races3 of 154 of 57—
White5 in 10018 in 100+13 in 100
Students with disabilities4 of 6724 of 71—
English learners5 of 5716 of 57—
Homeless9 of 2512 of 36—
Low-income16 in 10028 in 100+12 in 100
All students8 in 10017 in 100+9 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$11,457 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 8,245 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

Central federal expenditures attributed here$445 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 442

District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,433 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 61%Instruction support 10%Student services 12%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 1%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$81,602,84260.89%61%
Instruction support$13,603,62210.15%10%
Student services$16,761,79712.51%12%
Administration$8,248,4806.15%6%
Buildings & maintenance$13,127,2479.79%10%
Other$680,4350.51%1%
Total$134,024,422100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $134,024,422 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$11,457 per pupil
2020$11,117 per pupil
2019$11,628 per pupil
2018$9,890 per pupil
2017$9,618 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 95037 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 95037 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$163,182
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)46%
ZIP-area population51,943
Median age39.2 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 95037 →

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