Richard Riordan Primary Center: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Richard Riordan Primary Center posts 69% meeting the standard, and 41.0% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 67 | 41% | 69% | — | 18.5% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Richard Riordan Primary Center scores 67 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 90th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
💪 Strong All-Around — Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.
Most rating sites would stop at “69% proficient” and call it done. Richard Riordan Primary Center deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 58th to the 90th percentile since 2024 — past roughly 1800 elementary schools.
| Grade | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54% | 71% |
| Grade | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 50% | 71% |
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask which schools families here actually choose next — the zoned path is only the default.
- 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
5 of 8 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
TK/K students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (32.8% vs 5.0%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The zoned path continues to Luther Burbank Middle, which scores 16 points lower than this school — worth weighing alongside everything above. Families here often look at charter or magnet options for middle school.
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
$3,008 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.
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 136 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.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 72
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 | 17 | 47% | 24% | 12% | 18% | 71% | +27 |
| Grade 4 | 11 | 45% | 18% | 36% | 0% | 64% | +19 |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 17 | 35% | 35% | 6% | 24% | 71% | +25 |
| Grade 4 | 11 | 36% | 36% | 27% | 0% | 73% | +31 |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Riordan Primary Center ← | — | 67 | 41.0% | 69.4% | — | 0.6% |
| Monterey Hills Elementary | 1.9 mi | 76 | 52.0% | 78.3% | +4.5 | 0.7% |
| Arroyo Vista Elementary | 1.7 mi | 75 | 59.8% | 83.8% | −11.7 | 0.2% |
| Eagle Rock Elementary | 1.9 mi | 66 | 49.6% | 70.1% | −14.4 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 45 | 58 | #2423 | 15.7% | 51.9% | 17.6% | 0.9% | — |
| 2025 | 67 | 90 | #595 | 41.0% | 69.4% | 18.5% | 0.6% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Subgroup results are suppressed for small student counts (fewer than 15 tested), following CDE privacy rules.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 17.0% | 20.3% | +3.3pp |
| Male | 22.3% | 17.1% | -5.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 19.1% | 21.7% | +2.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 12.1% | 18.2% | +6.1pp |
| English Learners | 16.9% | 6.7% | -10.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 19.7% | 20.9% | +1.2pp |
| All Students | 19.8% | 18.8% | -1.0pp |
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