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Robert O. Townsend Junior High

Chino Hills, CA · Grades 7-8 · 905 students · Chino Valley Unified

A closer look at learning, opportunity and fit.

70% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 65% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

Math

65%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

70%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

905

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

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Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

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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: 64%2022: 58%2023: 61%2024: 58%2025: 65%2019: 67%2022: 59%2023: 66%2024: 61%2025: 70%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 64%2022: 58%2023: 61%2024: 58%2025: 65%2019: 67%2022: 59%2023: 66%2024: 61%2025: 70%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201964%67%
202258%59%
202361%66%
202458%61%
202565%70%

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

Where its students land

ELA70% met or exceeded
Exceeded 35%Met 35%Nearly Met 16%Not Met 14%
Math62% met or exceeded
Exceeded 45%Met 17%Nearly Met 19%Not Met 19%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 60th percentile in reading against the 94th in math, among 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 above the middle of California middle schools in reading, and the 94th in math. 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: +4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 60th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.60th pctile · +4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +22 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 94th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.94th 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 ahead of the same group statewide.

At Robert O. Townsend Junior High in Chino Hills, 61.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 53.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Robert O. Townsend Junior High outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (52.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (57.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 60.1 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 474 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 66% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 66%, district —, state 40%66%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 57%, district 47%, state 32%57% · −10 vs school
MaleMale: this school 64%, district 54%, state 42%64% · −2 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 69%, district 57%, state 44%69% · +3 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 51%, district 43%, state 32%51% · −15 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 83%, district 80%, state 72%83% · +17 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 69%, district 60%, state 56%69% · +2 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 17%, district 18%, state 15%17% · −49 vs school
FilipinoFilipino: this school 82%, district 77%, state 65%82% · +16 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 28%, district 25%, state 11%28% · −38 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 79%, district 61%, state 56%79% · +13 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 51%, district 35%, state 26%51% · −15 vs school
HomelessHomeless: this school 37%, district 36%, state 22%37% · −29 vs school
Pacific IslanderPacific Islander: too few students to report‹11
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
English Only572 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 572 students.+2 pts · +2 vs typical
Low-income students446 studentsLow-income students, reading: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 446 students.−2 pts · +1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students348 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −4 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 348 students.−4 pts · −2 vs typical
Asian228 studentsAsian, reading: +12 scale-score points versus expectation, against +6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 228 students.+12 pts · +6 vs typical
White127 studentsWhite, reading: 0 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 127 students.0 pts · 0 vs typical
Math
English Only570 studentsEnglish Only, math: +14 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 570 students.+14 pts · +17 vs typical
Low-income students443 studentsLow-income students, math: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 443 students.+15 pts · +20 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students345 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 345 students.+2 pts · +8 vs typical
Asian227 studentsAsian, math: +52 scale-score points versus expectation, against +17 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 227 students.+52 pts · +35 vs typical
White127 studentsWhite, math: +20 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 127 students.+20 pts · +19 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 24
Teaching staff46 teachers
Avg. experience13.3 years
Fully credentialed90%
First-year teachers4%
Intern / emergency permit1.2%
PrincipalMichael Cloke
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$60,908 – $127,536
Principal salary$147,639 – $171,745
Superintendent salary$378,868

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $16,580 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$27 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $16,580, CA average $14,491$16,580 · spent at this school
Federal share$27 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$17,387 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 61%Instruction support 11%Student services 9%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 3%

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$11,682 per pupil
2019$11,008 per pupil
2018$10,931 per pupil
2017$10,448 per pupil
2016$9,751 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

More than half of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 59% 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 Latino41.5% · district 54.1% · CA 56.1%
White15.3% · district 10.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian29.3% · district 22.5% · CA 10.2%
Black3.8% · district 3.9% · CA 4.8%
Other10.2% · district 9.3% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch54.8% · CA 64%
Median income$126K · CA $85K
Median home value$876K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+48% · CA 35%
ZIP population78,006
Median age41 years

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

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Chino Hills HighScope 68direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Chino Hills High, which sent 120 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 27 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Chino Hills High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 77% of Chino Hills High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

120 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 27 AP subjects taught → full record on Chino Hills High's page
Source: UC & College Board

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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A closer look at the evidence

Robert O. Townsend Junior High: reading the evidence

Robert O. Townsend is a middle school in Chino Hills. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

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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