San Miguel ElementaryPublicSunnyvale, CAGrades TK-5431 students
San Miguel Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
San Miguel posts 40% meeting the standard and 19.0% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
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of California's 5,721 elementary schools, 2025
Scope Score 37 of 100 · a composite, not a grade
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.
- Beat the standard
- 19.0%2.4pp below state avg
- Growth (G3→G5)
- AverageCalifornia growth: 53rd percentile
- Chronic absence
- 9.6%8.2pp below state avg
- English learners · met or exceeded
- 13%State: 11%
Has stayed near the 54th percentile since 2019.
Most rating sites would stop at “40% proficient” and call it done. San Miguel deserves a closer read. One in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 9.6% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
194 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 58 tracked
San Miguel Elementary scores 37 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 54th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 40% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 43% | 33% | 26% | 53% | 37% |
| Grade 4 | 42% | 37% | 36% | 27% | 41% |
| Grade 5 | 45% | 55% | 52% | 41% | 44% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 46% | 32% | 41% | 51% | 40% |
| Grade 4 | 46% | 27% | 31% | 21% | 47% |
| Grade 5 | 39% | 28% | 29% | 36% | 33% |
Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in five clear it by a lot.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5) | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 37 | 19% | 40% | Average · p53 | 9.6% | 1.8% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 39 | 21% | 43% | Average · p50 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
The 6 things our score weighs
The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 76 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
| What we weigh | Here | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 19.0% | 21.4% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 40.4% | 42.7% | 23% |
| Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5) | Average | average | 20% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 9.6% | 17.9% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 1.8% | 1.6% | 5% |
| EL proficiency (ELPAC) | 10.5% | 18.0% | 5% |
Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built
Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.
At San Miguel Elementary in Sunnyvale, 29.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 30.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. San Miguel Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 1.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (25.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (27.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.9 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 82 students tested.
5 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
ShowHide subgroup growth by grade
Change in the share who met or exceeded the standard, measured 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 5.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -2.0pp.
ShowHide California'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.
— 3 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.
Kids here show up more, and get suspended more, than the state average.
TK/K students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (15.9% vs 3.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
- San Miguel Elementaryelementary scale37/100Solid
- Columbia Middlemiddle scale37/100Solid
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K-12 feeder path
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
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About 18 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
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Pay is set by the district, not the school.
It spends $29,914 per student, more than the California average.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
$1,584 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.
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Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
One in four of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 30% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
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Worth a school visit
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More visit questions
- 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.
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The school, grade by grade
The honest read: the share exceeding falls 3.5pp across grades; the floor rises 7.3pp. The state average rises 4.6pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's mix of result levels.
California's own growth model splits here — the 12th percentile in reading against the 65th in math, among elementary schools.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 12th percentile of California elementary schools in reading and the 65th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 53rd. A gap that size between math and reading in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.
— 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.
returning cohort
Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
San Miguel Elementary is ranked #2,604 statewide · #6 of 8 in Sunnyvale.
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 19.0% | 21.4% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 40.4% | 42.7% | 23% |
| Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5) | Average | average | 20% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 9.6% | 17.9% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 1.8% | 1.6% | 5% |
| EL proficiency (ELPAC) | 10.5% | 18.0% | 5% |
- Exceeded standard
- ↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 48 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
- Met or exceeded
- ↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 48 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
- Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)
- ↑ vs CA average · 53rd pctile
- Chronic absenteeism
- ↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 63 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 1.6pp lower vs 2024
- Suspension rate
- ↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 49 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.3pp higher vs 2024
- EL proficiency (ELPAC)
- ↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 40 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
ShowHide table 02 — By grade & subgroup
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 65 | 22% | 15% | 17% | 46% | 37% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 21% | 21% | 22% | 37% | 41% | −3 |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 18% | 26% | 15% | 41% | 44% | −3 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 67 | 16% | 24% | 24% | 36% | 40% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 19% | 29% | 26% | 27% | 47% | +6 |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 19% | 14% | 22% | 45% | 33% | −2 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 64 | 11% | 19% | 45% | 25% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 82 | 29.3% | −1 | −9 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 133 | 27.8% | −2 | −11 |
| English Learners | 73 | 11.0% | +1 | +1 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Miguel Elementary ← | — | 37 | 19.0% | 40.4% | −0.1pp | +76 pts | 1.8% |
| Cumberland Elementary | 2.6 mi | 74 | 57.5% | 79.7% | +5.3pp | — | 0.8% |
| Ponderosa Elementary | 2 mi | 62 | 45.5% | 66.7% | −4.9pp | — | 0.1% |
| Braly Elementary | 2 mi | 53 | 31.8% | 56.6% | +10.7pp | — | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 39 | 21.4% | 42.7% | −2.9pp | — | 1.6% |
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 39 | 56 | #2404 | 20.2% | 43.4% | 6.0% | 0.8% | -2.6pp |
| 2022 | 32 | 50 | #2857 | 13.8% | 35.3% | 18.4% | 2.6% | +8.9pp |
| 2023 | 33 | 50 | #2867 | 14.4% | 35.9% | 17.9% | 1.7% | +7.0pp |
| 2024 | 44 | 66 | #1946 | 18.8% | 38.1% | 11.3% | 0.5% | -13.4pp |
| 2025 | 37 | 54 | #2604 | 19.0% | 40.4% | 9.6% | 1.8% | -0.1pp |
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 3.2% | 8.8% | +5.6pp |
| Male | 7.6% | 9.1% | +1.5pp |
| Asian | 10.3% | 22.2% | +11.9pp |
| Filipino | 6.5% | 3.0% | -3.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 3.2% | 9.8% | +6.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 4.8% | 7.7% | +2.9pp |
| White | 5.3% | 0.0% | -5.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 5.6% | 7.5% | +1.9pp |
| English Learners | 5.1% | 10.9% | +5.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 6.0% | 11.9% | +5.9pp |
| All Students | 5.6% | 9.0% | +3.4pp |
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −13 | 122 | Moderate | +6 | 122 | Accelerated |
| Hispanic or Latino | −19 | 78 | Moderate | −1 | 78 | Average |
| English Learner | −18 | 70 | Moderate | 0 | 70 | Average |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −20 | 58 | Moderate | 0 | 58 | Average |
| English Only | +2 | 46 | not categorised | +17 | 46 | not categorised |
| English Learners Only | −30 | 41 | not categorised | −3 | 41 | not categorised |
| Students with Disabilities | −35 | 32 | Minimal | −2 | 32 | Average |
| Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only | +4 | 29 | not categorised | +5 | 29 | not categorised |
| Filipino | −4 | 16 | Average | +15 | 16 | Accelerated |
| White | +26 | 16 | Exceptional | +27 | 16 | Exceptional |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-08
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