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Raymond J. Fisher Middle: High scores, real growth, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.

Raymond J. Fisher posts 48.2% exceeding the standard — versus 17.2% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.

19195 Fisher Avenue, 95032 (opens in new tab)·Los Gatos Union Elementary·Los Gatos·Grades 6-8·1,015 students·6% low-income·2024–25 CAASPP·(408) 335-2300·Website
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
This schoolCA avg
Scope7239
% Exceeded48%17%
% Met+78%40%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Average · p48Average · p50
Absence6.7%18.1%
Suspension2.6%3.6%
Scope Score
72
🌱 Building Momentum · Strong
ranked #120 statewide

Raymond J. Fisher Middle scores 72 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 95th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →

🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.

CDE CAASPP 2025

Most rating sites would stop at “78% proficient” and call it done. Raymond J. Fisher deserves a closer read. It sits at the 95th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

Raymond J. Fisher's low-income kids hit 59.6% 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.

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide

Has held the 95th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.

CA Dashboard
ELABlue(Maintained)MathBlue(Maintained)

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 78% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 676%75%76%75%73%
Grade 780%71%88%85%85%
Grade 870%73%71%77%81%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 677%77%74%71%76%
Grade 779%75%81%78%78%
Grade 872%62%58%77%73%

The story this school is actually telling

The school, grade by grade

ELA · CAASPP 2024–25

Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.

41%
32%
27%
Grade 6 · 73% proficient
44%
42%
14%
Grade 7 · 86% proficient
41%
40%
19%
Grade 8 · 81% proficient

The honest read: the share exceeding holds steady across grades; the floor rises 8.5pp. The state average rises 0.1pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.

59.6%
Low-income · ELA · met standard

Raymond J. Fisher's most underrated number

59.6% 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.

Raymond J. Fisher low-income: 59.6%State low-income: 38.2%

The 6 things our score weighs

Exceeded standard
48.2%
State 17.2%
31.0pp above state avg
Met or exceeded
77.6%
State 40.0%
37.7pp above state avg
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
Average
State average
The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 44 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
Chronic absenteeism
6.7%
State 18.1%
11.4pp below state avg
Suspension rate
2.6%
State 3.6%
1.0pp below state avg
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
40.5%
State 18.0%
22.6pp above state avg

California's own answer to the same question

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 31st percentile of California middle schools in reading and the 87th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 48th. A gap that size between math and reading in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.

Both measures, ranked against every California school
Our growth measuresame cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 48th percentile among California middle schools.48th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 31st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.31st pctile · −4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +16 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 87th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.87th pctile · +16 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

— 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.

Worth a school visit

Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.

  • 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 Raymond J. Fisher Middle in Los Gatos, 59.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 56.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Raymond J. Fisher Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (50.8% Math proficient); White students (77.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 46.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 63 students tested.

All students at this school: 78% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 78%, district —, state 40%78%
MaleMale: this school 77%, district 77%, state 42%77% · −1 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 73%, district 76%, state 56%73% · −4 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 79%, district 80%, state 44%79% · +1 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 91%, district 89%, state 72%91% · +13 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 28%, district 31%, state 15%28% · −50 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 81%, district 81%, state 56%81% · +3 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 52%, district 55%, state 32%52% · −25 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 55%, district 53%, state 32%55% · −22 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 50%, district 39%, state 11%50% · −28 vs school
FilipinoFilipino: too few students to report‹11
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: too few students to report‹11
American Indian/Alaska NativeAmerican Indian/Alaska Native: too few students to report‹11
HomelessHomeless: too few students to report‹11
this school district, same group California, same group
Subgroup growth by grade

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 rises by 27.6pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +27.6pp.

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
English Only631 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 631 students.−6 pts · −6 vs typical
White452 studentsWhite, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 452 students.−3 pts · −3 vs typical
Asian284 studentsAsian, reading: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against +6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 284 students.−2 pts · −8 vs typical
Students with disabilities95 studentsStudents with disabilities, reading: −18 scale-score points versus expectation, against −13 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 95 students.−18 pts · −5 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students76 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 76 students.−14 pts · −12 vs typical
Math
English Only631 studentsEnglish Only, math: +10 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 631 students.+10 pts · +13 vs typical
White452 studentsWhite, math: +10 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 452 students.+10 pts · +9 vs typical
Asian284 studentsAsian, math: +31 scale-score points versus expectation, against +17 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 284 students.+31 pts · +14 vs typical
Students with disabilities95 studentsStudents with disabilities, math: −9 scale-score points versus expectation, against −8 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 95 students.−9 pts · −1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students77 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 77 students.−2 pts · +4 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 1 more group is 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.

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 6.7%, district 6.2%, state 18.1%6.7% · −11.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 2.6%, district —, state 3.6%2.6% · −1.0pp vs state

Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (8.1% vs 3.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.

Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–63.3%
Grades 7–88.1%

Where the path goes

The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.

K-12 Feeder Path
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Middle
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72/100
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High School
No feeder data available for this level

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Student : teacherStudent to teacher ratio: this school 19:1, district 21:119:1
PrincipalMary Lonhart
Teaching staff56 teachers
Avg. experience16.0 years
Fully credentialed86%
Salary Schedule
Teacher salary schedule$83,194 – $159,362
Principal salaryFrom $220,075
Superintendent salary$370,846

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $21,646, CA average $14,491$21,646 · spent at this school
Federal share$8 per student

$8 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$22,341 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction69%
Instruction support9%
Student services5%
Administration9%
Buildings & maintenance9%

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

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$16,677 per pupil
2019$14,033 per pupil
2018$14,289 per pupil
2017$12,802 per pupil
2016$11,859 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score
White49.5%
District 47.8% · CA 19.9%
Asian30.8%
District 28.4% · CA 10.2%
Other10.3%
District 12.9% · CA 9.0%
Hispanic8.4%
District 9.8% · CA 56.1%
Black1.1%
District 1.0% · CA 4.8%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 5.6% (58pp below CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$204K · CA $85K
Median home value$2.00M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+75% · CA 35%
ZIP population27,313
Median age44 years

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

Worth Knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 71% 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is Raymond J. Fisher Middle a good middle school?

Raymond J. Fisher Middle has a Scope Score of 72 out of 100, placing it in the 95th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #120 statewide. 48.2% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 31.0 percentage points above 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 Raymond J. Fisher Middle's CAASPP test scores?

On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 77.6% of students at Raymond J. Fisher Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 48.2% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 29.5% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 48.2% pushed past it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it reveals whether a school's curriculum challenges students beyond minimum proficiency or paces toward it. 1,997 student-subject combinations were assessed.

How does Raymond J. Fisher Middle rank in California?

Raymond J. Fisher Middle ranks #120 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 95th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), 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.

Is Raymond J. Fisher Middle getting better or worse?

SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Raymond J. Fisher Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks average among California middle schools — roughly the 48th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the middle Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.

What is the attendance and school culture like at Raymond J. Fisher Middle?

6.7% of students at Raymond J. Fisher Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 2.6%. 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 Raymond J. Fisher Middle compare to other schools in Los Gatos?

Raymond J. Fisher Middle scores 72/100 (95th percentile) among California middle schools. 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 1,015 students. Use the schools in Los Gatos page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.

How does Raymond J. Fisher Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?

At Raymond J. Fisher Middle in Los Gatos, 59.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 56.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Raymond J. Fisher Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (50.8% Math proficient); White students (77.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 46.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 63 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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For the data nerds

Every number on this page

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

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Exceeded standard · 42%
48.2%
↑ vs CA 17.2% · 85th pctile
Met or exceeded · 23%
77.6%
↑ vs CA 40.0% · 81th pctile
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) · 20%
Average
↓ vs CA average · 48th pctile
Chronic absenteeism · 5%
6.7%
↑ vs CA 18.1% · 67th pctile
▼ 1.0pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate · 5%
2.6%
↑ vs CA 3.6% · 54th pctile
→ no change vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC) · 5%
40.5%
↑ vs CA 18.0% · 77th pctile
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 632841%32%18%9%73%+26
Grade 731744%42%8%6%85%+38
Grade 834941%40%12%7%81%+35
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 633153%23%16%8%76%+41
Grade 732056%22%16%7%78%+44
Grade 835254%19%14%13%73%+41

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

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide35045%27%25%3%

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 Disadvantaged6359.6%+4+21
White49577.0%−1+15
Asian30888.6%+2+14
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
Raymond J. Fisher Middle ←—7248.2%77.6%+2.9pp+44 pts2.6%
Union Middle1.9 mi8761.2%83.2%+0.4pp—1.4%
Rolling Hills Middle2.4 mi7143.6%72.2%−4.1pp—2.9%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20197695#9344.6%75.7%0.1%2.0%-5.4pp
20227495#10039.4%72.1%0.4%1.9%-8.9pp
20237997#7146.0%74.6%10.3%2.4%-11.0pp
20247696#8947.2%77.3%7.7%2.5%+4.1pp
20257295#12048.2%77.6%6.7%2.6%+2.9pp
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
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
Group20192025Δ
Female0.0%5.2%+5.2pp
Male0.0%7.7%+7.7pp
Asian0.0%1.6%+1.6pp
White0.0%——
Hispanic/Latino0.0%11.4%+11.4pp
Two or More Races0.0%2.5%+2.5pp
Students with Disabilities0.0%13.8%+13.8pp
English Learners0.0%10.0%+10.0pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged0.0%18.3%+18.3pp
All Students0.0%6.5%+6.5pp
Black/African American—0.0%—
Filipino—16.7%—
11California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−4917Average+16918Accelerated
English Only−6631not categorised+10631not categorised
White−3452Average+10452Accelerated
Asian−2284Average+31284Exceptional
Students with Disabilities−1895Moderate−995Moderate
Hispanic or Latino−1476Moderate−277Average
Two or More Races−373Average+1173Accelerated
English Learner−172Average+3173Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−257Average+1858Accelerated
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+850not categorised+2850not categorised
English Learners Only−1622not categorised+3723not categorised

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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