Petaluma Junior High: The state doesn't publish enough data to score this school fairly.
Petaluma is a middle school in Petaluma. The state doesn't publish enough data to score it fairly — so we won't. Here's what we can show.
No Scope Score available
California doesn't publicly report per-grade test results when fewer than 11 students are tested in a grade — a privacy protection for small schools. We can't compute a Scope Score without that data.
With little published data, a visit does the heavy lifting: ask about class sizes, teacher tenure, and where last year's students went next.
- Ask about typical class sizes and the student-teacher ratio.
- Ask how long teachers have stayed at the school.
- Ask where recent graduates or transfers went next.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom, and watch how a lesson actually runs.
How every group of students does here
At Petaluma Junior High in Petaluma, 35.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 41.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Petaluma Junior High trails its district average for low-income students by 6.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (21.6% Math proficient); White students (61.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 40.8 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 205 students tested.
8 of 17 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.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The road from this school ends at Petaluma High, which sent 28 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 17 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Petaluma High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 79% of Petaluma High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.
The people teaching here
What gets spent here
$24 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
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 454 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 25% 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.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 62
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 41
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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