Sacramento Valley Charter: Low-income kids here outscore the state by 20 points. But math slips between grade 3 and grade 5.
Sacramento Valley Charter posts numbers for its most vulnerable students that most schools don't reach overall. The trend line is the part worth a closer look.
Sacramento Valley Charter scores 53 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 74th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “60% proficient” and call it done. Sacramento Valley Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in West Sacramento, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 58.2% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide.
As a charter, Sacramento Valley Charter enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
The story this school is actually telling
of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide.
math proficiency runs 68% in grade 3 against 49% in grade 5, while reading holds (59% to 69%). The state average rises by +4.5pp over the same span.
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 9.8pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. The school's 5th graders aren't posting a wider lead than its 3rd graders. One question worth asking on a tour: are the strongest students being pushed, or coasting? A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Sacramento Valley Charter's most underrated number
58.2% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask the principal what changes between grade 3 and grade 5. The trajectory is the thing a tour will tell you more about than a spreadsheet.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
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The community around it
Student demographics
2 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 rises by 1.7pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +5.7pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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 | 44 | 39% | 20% | 32% | 9% | 59% | +16 |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 33% | 19% | 19% | 29% | 52% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 40% | 29% | 18% | 13% | 69% | +21 |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 40% | 27% | 13% | 20% | 67% | +20 |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 23% | 45% | 9% | 23% | 68% | +21 |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 28% | 33% | 22% | 17% | 61% | +15 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 44 | 27% | 41% | 23% | 9% | 68% | +22 |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 27% | 38% | 29% | 6% | 65% | +23 |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 29% | 20% | 38% | 13% | 49% | +14 |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 39% | 26% | 22% | 13% | 65% | +30 |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 26% | 22% | 22% | 30% | 48% | +14 |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 37% | 13% | 24% | 26% | 50% | +18 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 83 | 14% | 31% | 51% | 4% |
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 | 158 | 58.2% | +27 | +20 |
| Asian | 214 | 63.6% | +23 | −11 |
| English Learners | 24 | 29.2% | +23 | +19 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento Valley Charter ← | — | 53 | 32.5% | 60.3% | −4.8 | 1.6% |
| Crocker/Riverside Elementary | 2.5 mi | 72 | 50.1% | 77.4% | −0.5 | 0.6% |
| Bridgeway Island Elementary | 2.8 mi | 52 | 27.5% | 52.1% | −2.3 | 1.9% |
| Southport Elementary | 1.8 mi | 45 | 23.1% | 46.9% | +11.8 | 3.9% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.