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Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy

San Bernardino, CA · Grades 6-12 · 244 students · San Bernardino City Unified

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17% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 6% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

Math

6%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

17%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

244

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

6%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 6%2022: 0%2023: 0%2024: 0%2025: 6%2019: 22%2022: 10%2023: 4%2024: 10%2025: 17%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 6%2022: 0%2023: 0%2024: 0%2025: 6%2019: 22%2022: 10%2023: 4%2024: 10%2025: 17%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
20196%22%
20220%10%
20230%4%
20240%10%
20256%17%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

6% of students here meet the standard. 2% clear it by a lot.

ELA17% met or exceeded
Exceeded 5%Met 12%Nearly Met 32%Not Met 51%
Math4% met or exceeded
Exceeded 2%Met 2%Nearly Met 8%Not Met 88%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school172%6%6.4%0.7%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1739
% Exceeded2%17%
% Met+6%40%
Growth
Absence6.4%18.1%
Suspension0.7%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 8th percentile of middle schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California middle schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −13 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 12th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.12th pctile · −13 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −22 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 4th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.4th pctile · −22 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy in San Bernardino, 15.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 18.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (3.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (17.6% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 88 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 10% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 10%, district —, state 40%10%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 10%, district 28%, state 32%10% · −1 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 11%, district 29%, state 32%11% · +1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 16%, district 30%, state 44%16% · +6 vs school
MaleMale: this school 4%, district 29%, state 42%4% · −6 vs school

9 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students30 studentsLow-income students, reading: −18 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 30 students.−18 pts · −15 vs typical
Math
Low-income students30 studentsLow-income students, math: −28 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 30 students.−28 pts · −23 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 3 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 20 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher20 · district 22
Teaching staff13 teachers
Avg. experience8.9 years
Fully credentialed47%
First-year teachers8%
Intern / emergency permit5.5%
PrincipalDwaine Radden
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$67,927 – $136,734
Principal salary$170,815 – $190,823
Superintendent salary$413,775

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 6.4%, district 28.1%, state 18.1%6.4% · −11.7pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.7%, district —, state 3.6%0.7% · −2.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

Its district spends $16,530 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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: $16,530, CA average $14,491$16,530 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$26,775 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 62%Instruction support 12%Student services 12%Administration 5%Buildings & maintenance 9%

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$16,530 per pupil
2019$15,782 per pupil
2018$15,714 per pupil
2017$13,451 per pupil
2016$12,603 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 244 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 6% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino69.3% · district 82.2% · CA 56.1%
White4.5% · district 3.9% · CA 19.9%
Asian0.8% · district 1.2% · CA 10.2%
Black17.2% · district 9.3% · CA 4.8%
Other8.2% · district 3.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch73.0% · CA 64%
Median income$94K · CA $85K
Median home value$515K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+20% · CA 35%
ZIP population71,711
Median age30 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Provisional Accelerated Learning Academyalternative comparison groupCharterNeeds Support2%6%School being viewed
Ben F. Kolb MiddlePublicDeveloping14%36%2.0 mi
Shandin Hills MiddlePublicNeeds Support4%19%2.4 mi
Warren F. Frisbie MiddlePublicNeeds Support6%21%1.7 mi
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy a good middle school?
Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy has a Scope Score of 17 out of 100, placing it in the 19th percentile of California alternative middle schools and ranked #25 in that group. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. 2.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 15.1 percentage points below the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 6.3% of students at Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 2.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 4.2% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 2.1% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 120 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy rank among California alternative schools?
Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy ranks #25 among California alternative middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 19th percentile. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy?
6.4% of students at Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 0.7%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy compare to other schools in San Bernardino?
Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy scores 17/100 (19th percentile) among California alternative middle schools. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 244 students. Use the schools in San Bernardino page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy in San Bernardino, 15.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 18.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (3.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (17.6% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 88 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard2.1%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded6.3%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism6.4%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.7%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+10.4pp+1.5pp

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy: reading the evidence

Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy posts low test scores — and grade 8 tests above grade 6 here this year, by 10.4pp. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy is ranked #25 of California alternative middle schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard2.1%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded6.3%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism6.4%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.7%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+10.4pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 24 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 67 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 12.2pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 62 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.1pp lower vs 2024
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↑ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6128%0%17%75%8%−38
Grade 7240%0%29%71%0%−48
Grade 8244%17%33%46%21%−25
Grade 11486%19%38%38%25%−24
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6120%0%25%75%0%−34
Grade 7240%0%13%88%0%−34
Grade 8240%8%4%88%8%−24
Grade 11484%0%4%92%4%−20

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide850%6%82%12%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged8815.9%−19−22
Hispanic/Latino6817.6%−18−21
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy ←172.1%6.3%+10.4pp0.7%
Ben F. Kolb Middle2 mi2913.6%36.3%−7.5pp7.0%
Shandin Hills Middle2.4 mi173.6%19.0%+2.5pp9.0%
Warren F. Frisbie Middle1.7 mi125.7%21.3%−7.0pp12.1%
California average3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20191858#102.8%8.8%9.8%1.4%
2022120#290.0%2.5%40.6%1.1%
20231414#250.0%5.6%13.1%1.1%
2024158#240.0%2.4%18.6%0.9%
20251719#252.1%6.3%6.4%0.7%+10.4pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — This school's rank and percentile are computed against California alternative middle schools, not California's comprehensive campuses — see the Enrollment Axiom at /methodology#peer-class.
  • — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−1337Moderate−2237Minimal
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1830Moderate−2830Minimal
Hispanic or Latino−1128Moderate−1928Moderate
English Only−2422not categorised−1922not categorised
English Learner+213Average−3513Minimal

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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