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Ronald Reagan Elementary

Chowchilla, CA · Grades 2-4 · 490 students · Chowchilla Elementary

A closer look at learning, opportunity and fit.

24% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 29% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictChowchilla Elementary
PrincipalMelissa Esquivel
Grades2-4
Enrollment490 students

Math

29%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

24%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

490

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.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · 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: 33%2022: 28%2023: 22%2024: 36%2025: 29%2019: 28%2022: 22%2023: 26%2024: 22%2025: 24%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 33%2022: 28%2023: 22%2024: 36%2025: 29%2019: 28%2022: 22%2023: 26%2024: 22%2025: 24%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201933%28%
202228%22%
202322%26%
202436%22%
202529%24%

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
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2023 to 2025

Has stayed near the 28th percentile since 2023.

A missing score is not a judgment, and it is not a claim about what the state published. It means the composite a Scope Score, band and rank are all built from isn't on file for this school this year — the honest move is to say so, and to show whatever results are on file rather than guess at a number.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2023 · 22nd percentile · Scope Score 22 of 1002024 · 28th percentile · Scope Score 29 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased)MathOrange(Declined)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 328%22%26%22%24%
Grade 429%22%27%27%28%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 333%28%22%36%29%
Grade 426%18%23%28%22%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Where its students land

ELA26% met or exceeded
Exceeded 9%Met 17%Nearly Met 29%Not Met 45%
Math25% met or exceeded
Exceeded 6%Met 20%Nearly Met 34%Not Met 40%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 10th percentile of elementary 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 below the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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: −14 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 10th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.10th pctile · −14 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −16 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 10th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.10th pctile · −16 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Ronald Reagan Elementary in Chowchilla, 24.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 25.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ronald Reagan Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (23.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (24.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.2 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 429 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 14 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 26% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 26%, district —, state 43%26%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 24%, district 23%, state 32%24% · −2 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 23%, district 24%, state 32%23% · −3 vs school
MaleMale: this school 29%, district 26%, state 42%29% · +3 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 23%, district 26%, state 44%23% · −3 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 7%, district 5%, state 11%7% · −18 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 35%, district 35%, state 56%35% · +9 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 9%, district 7%, state 15%9% · −16 vs school

6 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

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 elementary school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students208 studentsLow-income students, reading: −17 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 208 students.−17 pts · −17 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students175 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −18 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 175 students.−18 pts · −19 vs typical
English Only163 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 163 students.−14 pts · −17 vs typical
English Learner67 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: −12 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 67 students.−12 pts · −10 vs typical
White49 studentsWhite, reading: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 49 students.−2 pts · −7 vs typical
Math
Low-income students209 studentsLow-income students, math: −16 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 209 students.−16 pts · −15 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students176 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −20 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 176 students.−20 pts · −19 vs typical
English Only164 studentsEnglish Only, math: −15 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 164 students.−15 pts · −16 vs typical
English Learner67 studentsEnglish Learner, math: −15 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 67 students.−15 pts · −17 vs typical
White49 studentsWhite, math: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 49 students.−1 pts · −6 vs typical
this school typical California elementary 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 25 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher25 · district 23
Teaching staff21 teachers
Avg. experience11.0 years
Fully credentialed88%
First-year teachers5%
Intern / emergency permit4.7%
PrincipalMelissa Esquivel

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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

It spends $18,298 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$489 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: $18,298, CA average $14,491$18,298 · spent at this school
Federal share$489 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,223 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 61%Instruction support 12%Student services 12%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 8%

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$13,176 per pupil
2019$11,442 per pupil
2018$11,427 per pupil
2017$10,556 per pupil
2016$10,126 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Hispanic or Latino74.3% · district 74.7% · CA 56.1%
White20.4% · district 19.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.6% · district 1.7% · CA 10.2%
Black1.6% · district 1.7% · CA 4.8%
Other2.0% · district 2.7% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch90.2% · CA 64%
Median income$68K · CA $85K
Median home value$373K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+15% · CA 35%
ZIP population23,520
Median age35 years

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

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

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2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Worth a school visit

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Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

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A closer look at the evidence

Ronald Reagan Elementary: reading the evidence

Ronald Reagan is an elementary school in Chowchilla. 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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SchoolScope scores and verdicts are our interpretation of public California Department of Education data — independent analysis, not an official rating. How we analyze · Request a correction

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