Pleasant Grove Middle: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Pleasant Grove posts 51% meeting the standard, and 25.3% 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 | 51 | 25% | 51% | +4.4 | 12.0% | 6.4% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Pleasant Grove Middle scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 74th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “51% proficient” and call it done. Pleasant Grove deserves a closer read. The school sits in Rescue, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 35.3% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 74th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 51% meet the standard today, versus 61% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 64% | 57% | 56% | 55% | 53% |
| Grade 7 | 77% | 73% | 67% | 74% | 73% |
| Grade 8 | 71% | 59% | 63% | 53% | 63% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 50% | 42% | 44% | 48% | 40% |
| Grade 7 | 53% | 53% | 46% | 39% | 40% |
| Grade 8 | 50% | 35% | 43% | 31% | 39% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 13.7pp across grades; the floor rises 10.2pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
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
At Pleasant Grove Middle in Rescue, 44.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 56.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Pleasant Grove Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 12.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (25.0% Math proficient); White students (65.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 41.9 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 108 students tested.
7 of 14 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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 11.2pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -14.6pp.
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
$417 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 470 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 49% 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 Elementary Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 74
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 6 | 139 | 19% | 33% | 30% | 18% | 53% | +6 |
| Grade 7 | 146 | 38% | 35% | 14% | 13% | 73% | +25 |
| Grade 8 | 145 | 33% | 30% | 21% | 17% | 63% | +17 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 140 | 18% | 22% | 31% | 29% | 40% | +5 |
| Grade 7 | 146 | 22% | 18% | 36% | 25% | 40% | +6 |
| Grade 8 | 145 | 22% | 17% | 23% | 39% | 39% | +6 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 146 | 14% | 35% | 41% | 10% |
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 | 108 | 44.4% | −12 | +6 |
| White | 327 | 65.1% | −8 | +3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 76 | 48.7% | −5 | +10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Grove Middle ← | — | 51 | 25.3% | 51.0% | +4.4 | 6.4% |
| Rolling Hills Middle | 3.2 mi | 70 | 43.6% | 74.9% | −2.7 | 2.0% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 52 | 77 | #468 | 24.7% | 60.9% | 6.1% | 3.0% | +3.5pp |
| 2022 | 47 | 74 | #568 | 21.8% | 53.3% | 23.8% | 5.0% | -2.9pp |
| 2023 | 55 | 78 | #473 | 20.8% | 53.2% | 13.6% | 5.9% | +2.7pp |
| 2024 | 43 | 63 | #818 | 21.2% | 49.9% | 11.8% | 5.8% | -9.2pp |
| 2025 | 51 | 74 | #586 | 25.3% | 51.0% | 12.0% | 6.4% | +4.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.2% | 14.0% | +8.8pp |
| Male | 6.8% | 9.6% | +2.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.7% | 15.6% | +7.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 7.1% | 16.5% | +9.4pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | 8.3% | +8.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 8.9% | 22.5% | +13.6pp |
| All Students | 6.0% | 11.8% | +5.8pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 21.1% | — |
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