Price Charter Middle: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Price Charter posts 65% meeting the standard, and 35.2% 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 | 61 | 35% | 65% | -1.1 | 10.7% | 2.9% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Price Charter Middle scores 61 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 87th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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💪 Strong All-Around — Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.
Most rating sites would stop at “65% proficient” and call it done. Price Charter deserves a closer read. It sits at the 87th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
As a charter, Price Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 87th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 65% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 64% | 59% | 67% | 61% | 70% |
| Grade 7 | 72% | 66% | 66% | 71% | 73% |
| Grade 8 | 73% | 72% | 62% | 64% | 67% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 50% | 52% | 54% | 53% | 59% |
| Grade 7 | 61% | 45% | 56% | 60% | 58% |
| Grade 8 | 69% | 58% | 47% | 59% | 60% |
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 2.2pp across grades; the floor slips 3.4pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
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 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 Price Charter Middle in San Jose, 46.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Price Charter Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (32.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (48.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 49.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 176 students tested.
6 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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 4.3pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -2.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (11.9% vs 7.9%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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 people teaching here
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.
$31 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 57% 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
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3 within ~3 mi · avg 81
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3 within ~3 mi · avg 66
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 | 305 | 33% | 38% | 14% | 15% | 70% | +24 |
| Grade 7 | 291 | 36% | 37% | 18% | 9% | 73% | +26 |
| Grade 8 | 337 | 35% | 32% | 19% | 14% | 67% | +21 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 309 | 35% | 24% | 20% | 22% | 59% | +24 |
| Grade 7 | 293 | 33% | 25% | 25% | 17% | 58% | +24 |
| Grade 8 | 338 | 39% | 21% | 19% | 21% | 60% | +27 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 338 | 25% | 32% | 38% | 6% |
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 | 176 | 46.0% | +3 | +8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 295 | 48.5% | +6 | +10 |
| White | 290 | 78.6% | +2 | +17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price Charter Middle ← | — | 61 | 35.2% | 64.6% | −1.1 | 2.9% |
| Union Middle | 2.2 mi | 85 | 61.2% | 83.2% | +0.4 | 1.4% |
| Dartmouth Middle | 2.9 mi | 60 | 41.0% | 64.7% | −0.9 | 1.8% |
| Willow Glen Middle | 2.1 mi | 36 | 20.7% | 43.9% | −6.0 | 8.0% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 67 | 92 | #153 | 37.1% | 64.7% | 4.3% | 4.0% | +14.0pp |
| 2022 | 64 | 91 | #199 | 28.5% | 58.8% | 12.2% | 4.1% | +9.9pp |
| 2023 | 56 | 80 | #428 | 30.2% | 58.7% | 11.3% | 6.2% | -6.4pp |
| 2024 | 65 | 90 | #215 | 32.3% | 61.2% | 10.6% | 4.2% | +4.8pp |
| 2025 | 61 | 87 | #287 | 35.2% | 64.6% | 10.7% | 2.9% | -1.1pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.8% | 10.4% | +5.6pp |
| Male | 3.9% | 10.8% | +6.9pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 3.7% | +3.7pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| White | 0.0% | 4.2% | +4.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.3% | 20.0% | +14.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 5.8% | 6.9% | +1.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 9.1% | 24.0% | +14.9pp |
| English Learners | 6.0% | 21.9% | +15.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 9.1% | 26.0% | +16.9pp |
| All Students | 4.3% | 10.6% | +6.3pp |
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