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Promise AcademyPublicLancaster, CAGrades TK-845 students

Promise Academy: A special education center. No Scope Score publishes here.

A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At Promise Academy, students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery — so a comparative rank would measure something a family's choice never entered. We show what California reports and hold the rank.

special education center

no score · no band · no rank — enrollment assigned, not chosen

45 students · placed by an IEP team

SchoolScope has no scored record for this school, so there is nothing here to rank either way. Why we withhold a score →

Promise Academy is a special education center in Lancaster, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen.

SchoolScope holds no scored record for Promise Academy this year — no Scope Score, band or rank — so there is no picture to draw beyond the figures on this page.

Worth a conversation

If a placement here is part of a child's IEP, this page is background, not the decision — the IEP team meeting is where fit actually gets decided.

  • Ask how this placement was determined, and what the annual IEP review looks at.
  • Ask what related services — speech, occupational therapy, counseling — are provided on site.
  • Ask how and when a return to a less-restrictive setting gets reconsidered.
The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 6 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher6 · district 24
Teaching staff11 teachers
Avg. experience13.9 years
Fully credentialed77%
PrincipalAmy Westlake
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$58,890 – $129,672
Principal salaryFrom $149,973
Superintendent salary$278,750

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $137,567 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$317 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $137,567, CA average $14,491$137,567 · spent at this school
Federal share$317 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$23,225 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 65%Instruction support 9%Student services 11%Administration 5%Buildings & maintenance 10%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$14,005 per pupil
2019$12,628 per pupil
2018$12,465 per pupil
2017$11,123 per pupil
2016$11,001 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Who is enrolled

Four in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 45 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

Hispanic or Latino46.7% · district 59.1% · CA 56.1%
White22.2% · district 7.2% · CA 19.9%
Black26.7% · district 26.5% · CA 4.8%
Other4.4% · district 6.4% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 17.8% · Male 82.2%
Free or reduced lunch82.2% · CA 64%
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Data source: California Department of Education. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, band or rank for this school for 2025 — enrollment, staffing, and finance figures above are CDE's own current data. Data updated 2026-09-27.methodology · data updates · report issue

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