R. Roger Rowe Middle: More than half of kids exceed the standard. But this year's 8th graders test below its 6th graders.
R. Roger Rowe is one of the strongest middle schools in Rancho Santa Fe by raw achievement. The catch worth understanding: the cohort doesn't gain ground year-over-year.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 73 | 54% | 84% | -5.8 | 14.2% | 1.2% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
R. Roger Rowe Middle scores 73 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 95th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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⭐ High Ceiling — Ask what happens for a kid who shows up behind — a high ceiling for the top can sit right next to thin support at the bottom, and the score alone won't show you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “84% proficient” and call it done. R. Roger Rowe deserves a closer read. It sits at the 95th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: 53.6% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 16.8%.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 95th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 84% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 83% | 91% | 85% | 86% | 89% |
| Grade 7 | 94% | 95% | 79% | 85% | 86% |
| Grade 8 | 90% | 89% | 96% | 85% | 81% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 76% | 88% | 83% | 79% | 82% |
| Grade 7 | 82% | 79% | 76% | 78% | 89% |
| Grade 8 | 83% | 70% | 84% | 77% | 78% |
The story this school is actually telling
of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 16.8%.
proficiency runs 85% in this year's grade 6 against 79% in its grade 8. The state average falls by −0.5pp over the same span.
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 15.2pp across grades; the floor slips 7.2pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. The school's 8th graders aren't posting a wider lead than its 6th graders. One question worth asking on a tour: are the strongest students being pushed, or coasting? A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask the principal what changes between grade 6 and grade 8. Ask who teaches the older grades, and what the school does when a child starts falling behind.
- Ask what changes between grade 6 and grade 8 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 R. Roger Rowe Middle in Rancho Santa Fe, 85.8% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 86.2% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. R. Roger Rowe Middle trails its district average for white students by 0.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (81.1% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 127 students tested.
8 of 13 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 4–6 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (20.3% vs 10.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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.
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 189 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 64% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 61 | 52% | 36% | 7% | 5% | 89% | +42 |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 51% | 35% | 10% | 4% | 86% | +38 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 37% | 44% | 14% | 5% | 81% | +35 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 61 | 51% | 31% | 15% | 3% | 82% | +47 |
| Grade 7 | 71 | 72% | 17% | 8% | 3% | 89% | +55 |
| Grade 8 | 58 | 59% | 19% | 12% | 10% | 78% | +45 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 59 | 25% | 39% | 34% | 2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 127 | 85.8% | −0 | +24 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. Roger Rowe Middle ← | — | 73 | 53.6% | 84.0% | −5.8 | 1.2% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 75 | 97 | #54 | 50.5% | 84.9% | 8.7% | 1.0% | +7.0pp |
| 2022 | 78 | 97 | #55 | 54.3% | 85.2% | 0.6% | 0.5% | -10.3pp |
| 2023 | 91 | 99 | #10 | 56.0% | 83.9% | 14.5% | 5.6% | +5.8pp |
| 2024 | 67 | 91 | #189 | 47.9% | 81.9% | 17.4% | 5.9% | -1.2pp |
| 2025 | 73 | 95 | #109 | 53.6% | 84.0% | 14.2% | 1.2% | -5.8pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 7.0% | 16.7% | +9.7pp |
| Male | 10.2% | 11.0% | +0.8pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 17.6% | +17.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 14.3% | 21.7% | +7.4pp |
| Two or More Races | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 9.4% | 5.7% | -3.7pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | — | — |
| All Students | 8.6% | 13.8% | +5.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 15.4% | — |
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