Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy posts 31% meeting the standard and 11.7% 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 | 34 | 12% | 31% | +3.3 | 17.2% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy scores 34 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 26th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “31% proficient” and call it done. Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 12th to the 26th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 600 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 31% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 26% | 25% | 36% | 42% | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 40% | 19% | 34% | 43% | 31% |
| Grade 5 | 25% | 22% | 11% | 27% | 42% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 33% | 31% | 38% | 45% | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 41% | 11% | 30% | 43% | 30% |
| Grade 5 | 12% | 18% | 7% | 13% | 25% |
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 2.6pp across grades; the floor rises 15.2pp. 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 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 Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy in Los Angeles, 33.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 7.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (33.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 20.1 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 187 students tested.
5 of 12 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 16.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
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
$3,945 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), 32% 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 | 76 | 12% | 14% | 20% | 54% | 26% | −17 |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 12% | 20% | 25% | 43% | 31% | −13 |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 9% | 32% | 20% | 38% | 42% | −6 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 78 | 12% | 22% | 19% | 47% | 33% | −12 |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 12% | 18% | 30% | 40% | 30% | −12 |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 14% | 11% | 34% | 42% | 25% | −11 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 65 | 6% | 26% | 45% | 23% |
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 | 187 | 33.7% | −7 | −5 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 182 | 33.5% | −8 | −5 |
| English Learners | 73 | 12.3% | +5 | +2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy ← | — | 34 | 11.7% | 31.2% | +3.3 | 0.6% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 1.9 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Vernon City Elementary | 1.5 mi | 59 | 37.0% | 59.4% | −31.9 | 0.3% |
| Vermont Avenue Elementary | 2.9 mi | 58 | 23.9% | 51.5% | −7.8 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 28 | 12 | #4822 | 10.7% | 29.3% | 20.4% | 0.0% | -10.5pp |
| 2022 | 25 | 20 | #4610 | 6.8% | 21.1% | 49.2% | 0.0% | -8.4pp |
| 2023 | 19 | 4 | #5471 | 10.7% | 26.1% | 28.2% | 0.0% | -27.9pp |
| 2024 | 37 | 38 | #3548 | 14.3% | 35.4% | 20.2% | 1.4% | -23.3pp |
| 2025 | 34 | 26 | #4253 | 11.7% | 31.2% | 17.2% | 0.6% | +3.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 21.7% | 16.2% | -5.5pp |
| Male | 19.5% | 18.2% | -1.3pp |
| Black/African American | 29.6% | 36.4% | +6.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 20.6% | 16.1% | -4.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 24.6% | 18.5% | -6.1pp |
| English Learners | 21.6% | 12.7% | -8.9pp |
| Foster Youth | 25.0% | — | — |
| Homeless | 24.0% | 37.9% | +13.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 21.4% | 17.6% | -3.8pp |
| All Students | 20.6% | 17.1% | -3.5pp |
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