Pomelo Community Charter: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Pomelo Community Charter posts 67% meeting the standard, and 37.3% 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 | 63 | 37% | 67% | -7.6 | 13.9% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Pomelo Community Charter scores 63 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 86th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🏫 Solid Base — Ask what the school does for a kid who's already meeting the standard with room to spare — steady proficiency across the board doesn't tell you whether the strongest kids are being pushed further.
Most rating sites would stop at “67% proficient” and call it done. Pomelo Community Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in West Hills, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Pomelo Community Charter's low-income kids hit 55.7% 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.
As a charter, Pomelo Community Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 64th to the 86th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1200 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 67% of students meet the standard today, above the 62% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 81% | 61% | 53% | 67% | 73% |
| Grade 4 | 62% | 54% | 53% | 58% | 70% |
| Grade 5 | 62% | 74% | 69% | 65% | 62% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 73% | 62% | 58% | 70% | 67% |
| Grade 4 | 48% | 48% | 51% | 51% | 68% |
| Grade 5 | 45% | 39% | 52% | 53% | 62% |
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 falls 8.5pp across grades; the floor slips 10.5pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Pomelo Community Charter's most underrated number
55.7% 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 5 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 what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Pomelo Community Charter in West Hills, 55.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Pomelo Community Charter outperforms its district average for low-income students by 14.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (50.0% Math proficient); White students (75.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 30.3 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 88 students tested.
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 13.5pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (17.5% vs 11.4%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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.
$514 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 50% 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 71
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 48
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 34
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 3 | 92 | 40% | 33% | 14% | 13% | 73% | +29 |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 39% | 31% | 18% | 12% | 70% | +25 |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 32% | 31% | 26% | 12% | 62% | +14 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 91 | 33% | 34% | 21% | 12% | 67% | +21 |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 37% | 31% | 20% | 12% | 68% | +26 |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 44% | 19% | 20% | 18% | 62% | +27 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 84 | 19% | 31% | 38% | 12% |
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 | 88 | 55.7% | +15 | +17 |
| White | 124 | 75.0% | +6 | +13 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 66 | 54.5% | +14 | +16 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pomelo Community Charter ← | — | 63 | 37.3% | 67.0% | −7.6 | 0.3% |
| Welby Way Charter Elementary School And Gifted-Hig | 1.2 mi | 83 | 62.6% | 81.4% | +0.6 | 0.1% |
| Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary | 1.8 mi | 72 | 48.1% | 72.0% | +4.4 | 0.1% |
| Village Charter Academy | 2.3 mi | 59 | 28.1% | 56.9% | −14.0 | 0.2% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 49 | 64 | #1991 | 35.8% | 62.1% | 14.9% | 0.0% | -23.5pp |
| 2022 | 51 | 78 | #1281 | 30.4% | 56.5% | 23.0% | 0.2% | -4.9pp |
| 2023 | 55 | 79 | #1220 | 30.8% | 55.8% | 21.2% | 0.3% | +5.2pp |
| 2024 | 54 | 76 | #1400 | 31.2% | 60.7% | 16.5% | 0.1% | -9.7pp |
| 2025 | 63 | 86 | #812 | 37.3% | 67.0% | 13.9% | 0.3% | -7.6pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 15.8% | 14.7% | -1.1pp |
| Male | 14.2% | 12.8% | -1.4pp |
| Asian | 13.1% | 9.7% | -3.4pp |
| Black/African American | 5.9% | 37.5% | +31.6pp |
| White | 4.8% | 0.0% | -4.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 23.1% | 18.1% | -5.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 17.5% | 4.3% | -13.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 18.8% | 17.5% | -1.3pp |
| English Learners | 26.7% | 20.0% | -6.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 23.5% | 18.5% | -5.0pp |
| All Students | 15.0% | 13.7% | -1.3pp |
| Filipino | — | 11.8% | — |
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