Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter scores 45 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 56th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “34% proficient” and call it done. Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter 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 headline number: 4.5% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
As a charter, Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 16.7pp. 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 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 79
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 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 14.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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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 | 79 | 14% | 18% | 24% | 44% | 32% | −12 |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 13% | 21% | 21% | 45% | 34% | −11 |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 14% | 35% | 19% | 32% | 48% | +0 |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 13% | 43% | 24% | 19% | 57% | +10 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 79 | 8% | 18% | 27% | 48% | 25% | −20 |
| Grade 4 | 124 | 10% | 18% | 29% | 43% | 28% | −13 |
| Grade 5 | 120 | 13% | 23% | 23% | 41% | 36% | +1 |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 21% | 31% | 27% | 21% | 52% | +17 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 120 | 9% | 18% | 53% | 21% |
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 | 370 | 42.7% | +2 | +4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 379 | 41.7% | +1 | +3 |
| English Learners | 202 | 16.8% | +10 | +6 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Monica Boulevard Community Charter ← | — | 45 | 12.0% | 33.9% | +13.6 | 0.1% |
| Third Street Elementary | 1.7 mi | 90 | 68.3% | 88.9% | +1.1 | 0.1% |
| Franklin Avenue Elementary | 2.1 mi | 76 | 56.5% | 81.7% | −8.1 | 0.1% |
| Melrose Avenue Elementary | 1.7 mi | 71 | 47.5% | 71.5% | +4.7 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |