Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship posts 46% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 49 | 19% | 46% | 100.0% | 30.3% | 25.1% | 3.1% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship scores 49 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 61st percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “46% proficient” and call it done. Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship deserves a closer read. The school sits in Fresno, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship's low-income kids hit 65.3% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 61st percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 46% meet the standard today, versus 55% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 65% | 64% | 74% | 74% | 70% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 45% | 5% | 33% | 20% | 21% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 46 are proficient by 11th grade → 100 graduate → 30 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship's most underrated number
65.3% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 7 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 extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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 Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship in Fresno, 65.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship outperforms its district average for low-income students by 31.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (69.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 4.3 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 49 students tested.
7 of 12 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$627 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 282 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 27% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 54
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 59
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 11 | 56 | 34% | 36% | 25% | 5% | 70% | +22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 56 | 4% | 18% | 38% | 41% | 21% | −2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 56 | 2% | 25% | 71% | 2% |
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 | 49 | 65.3% | +31 | +27 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 46 | 69.6% | +34 | +31 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phillip J Patino School of Entrepreneurship ← | — | 49 | 18.8% | 45.5% | — | 3.1% |
| Design Science Middle College High | 0.4 mi | 58 | 43.9% | 69.3% | — | 3.6% |
| Career Technical Education Charter | 0.8 mi | 53 | 18.6% | 56.8% | — | 4.9% |
| Erma Duncan Polytechnical High | 2.2 mi | 51 | 14.2% | 41.4% | — | 2.7% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54 | 68 | #651 | 17.5% | 55.1% | 15.8% | 4.6% | — |
| 2022 | 45 | 53 | #986 | 7.7% | 34.6% | 37.0% | 4.9% | — |
| 2023 | 51 | 70 | #652 | 16.3% | 53.3% | 31.9% | 5.1% | — |
| 2024 | 51 | 68 | #680 | 17.5% | 47.0% | 25.6% | 4.1% | — |
| 2025 | 49 | 61 | #842 | 18.8% | 45.5% | 25.1% | 3.1% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 11.2% | 28.4% | +17.2pp |
| Male | 15.0% | 19.0% | +4.0pp |
| Asian | 5.6% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 25.0% | 28.0% | +3.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.7% | 22.8% | +13.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 7.7% | 0.0% | -7.7pp |
| English Learners | 6.7% | 38.5% | +31.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 12.1% | 23.8% | +11.7pp |
| All Students | 13.3% | 23.4% | +10.1pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 21.4% | — |
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