Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds posts 45% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds scores 49 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 65th 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 →
Most rating sites would stop at “45% proficient” and call it done. Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds deserves a closer read. The school sits in San Jose, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 31.8% of English learners met the ELA standard — versus 10.4% statewide.
As a charter, Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 falls 10.0pp across grades; the floor rises 2.8pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
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.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 70
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 0.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 75 | 21% | 21% | 24% | 33% | 43% | −1 |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 31% | 19% | 16% | 34% | 51% | +6 |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 11% | 34% | 20% | 34% | 45% | −2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 75 | 28% | 28% | 20% | 24% | 56% | +10 |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 29% | 19% | 29% | 23% | 48% | +6 |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 16% | 11% | 34% | 39% | 27% | −8 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 44 | 7% | 2% | 66% | 25% |
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 | 144 | 43.8% | +31 | +6 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 146 | 38.4% | +24 | −0 |
| English Learners | 85 | 31.8% | +26 | +21 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds ← | — | 49 | 22.7% | 45.0% | −13.0 | 0.1% |
| Millbrook Elementary | 2.9 mi | 77 | 45.3% | 69.3% | +14.8 | 0.3% |
| Norwood Creek Elementary | 2.5 mi | 68 | 45.3% | 71.9% | −0.8 | 0.6% |
| Alpha: Cornerstone Academy Preparatory | 2.6 mi | 65 | 36.2% | 59.9% | +18.1 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |