Red Hill Elementary: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Red Hill pairs 77% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 81 | 45% | 77% | +13.9 | 6.5% | 1.0% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Red Hill Elementary scores 81 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 98th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “77% proficient” and call it done. Red Hill deserves a closer read. The school sits in Santa Ana, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Red Hill's low-income kids hit 70.7% 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
Climbed from the 72nd to the 98th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1400 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 77% of students meet the standard today, above the 59% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 56% | 63% | 53% | 59% | 65% |
| Grade 4 | 70% | 60% | 71% | 72% | 81% |
| Grade 5 | 62% | 58% | 63% | 82% | 84% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 55% | 73% | 63% | 74% | 69% |
| Grade 4 | 64% | 56% | 79% | 73% | 85% |
| Grade 5 | 45% | 33% | 60% | 80% | 78% |
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 30.4pp across grades; the floor rises 18.8pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Red Hill's most underrated number
70.7% 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.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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 Red Hill Elementary in Santa Ana, 70.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Red Hill Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 24.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (67.2% Math proficient); White students (82.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 10.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 58 students tested.
6 of 12 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 6.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +7.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 69% 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
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 89
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 54
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 63
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 3 | 54 | 28% | 37% | 24% | 11% | 65% | +21 |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 45% | 36% | 12% | 7% | 81% | +37 |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 58% | 25% | 10% | 6% | 84% | +36 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54 | 37% | 31% | 22% | 9% | 69% | +23 |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 48% | 37% | 11% | 4% | 85% | +44 |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 52% | 25% | 16% | 6% | 78% | +42 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 67 | 34% | 34% | 27% | 4% |
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 | 58 | 70.7% | +25 | +32 |
| White | 96 | 82.3% | +10 | +20 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 65 | 66.2% | +24 | +27 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill Elementary ← | — | 81 | 44.8% | 76.9% | +13.9 | 1.0% |
| Santiago Hills Elementary | 3.3 mi | 95 | 66.6% | 86.0% | +3.7 | 0.7% |
| Orchard Hills | 2.3 mi | 88 | 65.2% | 86.0% | +7.0 | 1.4% |
| Tustin Memorial Elementary | 0.9 mi | 85 | 60.7% | 88.3% | −0.1 | 0.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54 | 72 | #1518 | 27.5% | 58.7% | 2.9% | 0.2% | -2.3pp |
| 2022 | 42 | 65 | #2030 | 29.6% | 57.3% | 7.6% | 0.7% | -22.7pp |
| 2023 | 62 | 86 | #781 | 38.0% | 64.9% | 11.7% | 0.5% | +3.0pp |
| 2024 | 79 | 97 | #162 | 45.2% | 73.4% | 5.2% | 0.6% | +14.6pp |
| 2025 | 81 | 98 | #126 | 44.8% | 76.9% | 6.5% | 1.0% | +13.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 3.1% | 6.3% | +3.2pp |
| Male | 2.5% | 5.1% | +2.6pp |
| Asian | 3.6% | 0.0% | -3.6pp |
| White | 0.0% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 3.0% | 9.6% | +6.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 5.0% | 0.0% | -5.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 8.8% | 5.7% | -3.1pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | 6.7% | +6.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 5.7% | 11.3% | +5.6pp |
| All Students | 2.8% | 5.6% | +2.8pp |
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