Paseo Grande Charter: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Paseo Grande Charter posts 31% meeting the standard and 6.8% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 32 | 7% | 31% | -6.5 | 54.2% | 0.8% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Paseo Grande Charter scores 32 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 28th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🌱 Building Momentum — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “31% proficient” and call it done. Paseo Grande Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Paseo Grande Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 6 and grade 8 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Paseo Grande Charter in Sacramento, 33.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 26.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Paseo Grande Charter outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (41.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 39 students tested.
10 of 15 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
Where the path goes
Paseo Grande Charter serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
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 152 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 20% 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 45
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 13 | 8% | 23% | 38% | 31% | 31% | −16 |
| Grade 7 | 15 | 0% | 47% | 27% | 27% | 47% | −1 |
| Grade 8 | 22 | 0% | 14% | 50% | 36% | 14% | −32 |
| Grade 11 | 30 | 3% | 43% | 20% | 33% | 47% | −1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 13 | 15% | 8% | 8% | 69% | 23% | −12 |
| Grade 7 | 15 | 13% | 33% | 20% | 33% | 47% | +13 |
| Grade 8 | 22 | 5% | 23% | 32% | 41% | 27% | −5 |
| Grade 11 | 30 | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 50% | +27 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 30 | 3% | 17% | 60% | 20% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 39 | 33.3% | +7 | −5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paseo Grande Charter ← | — | 32 | 6.8% | 31.4% | −6.5 | 0.8% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
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