Russo/McEntee Academy: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Russo/McEntee Academy posts 35% meeting the standard and 18.3% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 18% | 35% | -12.8 | 23.0% | 0.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Russo/McEntee Academy scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 58th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. Russo/McEntee Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in San Jose, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 41st to the 58th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 800 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 35% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 38% | 26% | 28% | 24% | 47% |
| Grade 4 | 38% | 25% | 26% | 47% | 28% |
| Grade 5 | 36% | 38% | 42% | 44% | 50% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 35% | 28% | 30% | 26% | 46% |
| Grade 4 | 31% | 25% | 17% | 33% | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 13% | 23% | 27% | 17% |
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 10.3pp across grades; the floor rises 3.3pp. 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Russo/McEntee Academy in San Jose, 35.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 23.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Russo/McEntee Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 11.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (22.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (32.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.1 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 108 students tested.
7 of 13 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 rises by 1.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.2pp.
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
$248 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 25% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 45 | 31% | 16% | 22% | 31% | 47% | +3 |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 19% | 9% | 14% | 58% | 28% | −17 |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 21% | 29% | 15% | 35% | 50% | +2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 46 | 15% | 30% | 11% | 43% | 46% | −0 |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 13% | 9% | 33% | 44% | 22% | −19 |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 10% | 6% | 33% | 50% | 17% | −19 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 48 | 13% | 13% | 58% | 17% |
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 | 108 | 35.2% | +11 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 101 | 32.7% | +10 | −6 |
| English Learners | 48 | 8.3% | +4 | −2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russo/McEntee Academy ← | — | 46 | 18.3% | 34.9% | −12.8 | 0.7% |
| Rocketship Discovery Prep | 2.1 mi | 63 | 31.5% | 50.0% | +8.7 | 0.1% |
| Vinci Park Elementary | 2.2 mi | 60 | 39.8% | 66.9% | −13.8 | 0.1% |
| Summerdale Elementary | 1.7 mi | 55 | 34.2% | 61.7% | −12.3 | 0.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 39 | 41 | #3226 | 12.4% | 34.4% | 9.2% | 0.8% | -3.4pp |
| 2022 | 31 | 38 | #3551 | 8.3% | 25.8% | 10.0% | 0.0% | -1.1pp |
| 2023 | 41 | 54 | #2636 | 13.3% | 27.8% | 24.3% | 0.0% | +3.6pp |
| 2024 | 43 | 52 | #2748 | 14.5% | 33.5% | 27.0% | 1.6% | +10.3pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 58 | #2418 | 18.3% | 34.9% | 23.0% | 0.7% | -12.8pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 8.6% | 28.3% | +19.7pp |
| Male | 9.8% | 19.2% | +9.4pp |
| Asian | 7.9% | 10.7% | +2.8pp |
| Black/African American | 15.4% | — | — |
| White | 0.0% | 24.2% | +24.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.6% | 27.3% | +17.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 3.9% | 25.0% | +21.1pp |
| English Learners | 7.6% | 23.4% | +15.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 10.5% | 26.3% | +15.8pp |
| All Students | 9.2% | 23.6% | +14.4pp |
| Homeless | — | 56.3% | — |
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