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SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy

Elk Grove, CA · Grades 7-12 · Elk Grove Unified

No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.

41% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 4% in math. 52.7% graduate in four years. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

Math

4%

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

English

41%

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

Total enrollment

Graduation

52.7%

Four-year graduation rate

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grade 11 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 4%2022: 2%2023: 2%2024: 4%2025: 4%2019: 28%2022: 35%2023: 35%2024: 28%2025: 41%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 4%2022: 2%2023: 2%2024: 4%2025: 4%2019: 28%2022: 35%2023: 35%2024: 28%2025: 41%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
20194%28%
20222%35%
20232%35%
20244%28%
20254%41%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in five of students here meet the standard. 5% clear it by a lot.

ELA36% met or exceeded
Exceeded 9%Met 27%Nearly Met 20%Not Met 45%
Math4% met or exceeded
Exceeded 2%Met 2%Nearly Met 16%Not Met 80%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California high schools · average20% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Grad rateCollege readinessAbsenceSuspension
This school205%23%52.7%0.0%24.7%1.3%
CA average · High School5420%43%92.5%43.0%23.1%3.3%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2054
% Exceeded5%20%
% Met+23%43%
Grad rate52.7%92.5%
College readiness0.0%43.0%
Absence24.7%23.1%
Suspension1.3%3.3%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 5th percentile of high schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California high schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

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 high school lands at −3 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −13 and +5 — 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −18 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 6th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.6th pctile · −18 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −21 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 5th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.5th pctile · −21 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy in Elk Grove, 29.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 15.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (1.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 6.6 percentage points for black students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 92 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 20% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 20%, district —, state 43%20%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 15%, district 40%, state 32%15% · −4 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 19%, district 37%, state 32%19% · −1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 28%, district 50%, state 44%28% · +8 vs school
MaleMale: this school 16%, district 48%, state 42%16% · −4 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 11%, district 18%, state 15%11% · −9 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 13%, district 29%, state 26%13% · −7 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 40%, district 58%, state 56%40% · +20 vs school

7 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Where graduates go

What happens after high school?

35%

Enrolled in college within a year

Class of 2023 · 38 of 108 completers · includes community colleges

108Completers
8%
Other colleges9 completers · Outside the California community college system
27%
California community colleges29 completers · Enrolled within a year
65%
Not recorded enrolled70 completers · No college enrollment in this reporting window

Destination data describes this earlier graduating class, separately from current-year test results and graduation. Percentages are rounded.

College destinations and the full graduate record
2024–25

Where graduates go

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Where the class of 2023 went
35%enrolled in college within a year
  • University of California1 (1%)
  • California State University1 (1%)
  • California community college29 (27%)
  • In-state private7 (6%)
  • Not enrolled70 (65%)

CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate, class of 2023 · % = count ÷ completers, our arithmetic

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The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Teaching staff36 teachers
Avg. experience8.9 years
Fully credentialed34%
First-year teachers3%
Intern / emergency permit5.5%
PrincipalJason Sample
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$58,060 – $117,527
Principal salary$157,243 – $170,176
Superintendent salary$441,092

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Course breadth
CTE pathway completers4 students
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 24.7%, district 21.0%, state 23.1%24.7% · +1.7pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.3%, district —, state 3.3%1.3% · −1.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

Its district spends $12,179 per student, less than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $12,179, CA average $14,491$12,179 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,202 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 65%Instruction support 11%Student services 11%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 7%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,179 per pupil
2019$11,944 per pupil
2018$12,557 per pupil
2017$11,515 per pupil
2016$11,117 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 14% 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.

Hispanic or Latino54.7% · district 27.6% · CA 56.1%
White13.3% · district 14.6% · CA 19.9%
Asian4.4% · district 30.8% · CA 10.2%
Black14.2% · district 9.8% · CA 4.8%
Other13.3% · district 17.2% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 45.3% · Male 52.8% · Non-binary 1.9%
Median income$117K · CA $85K
Median home value$582K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+38% · CA 35%
ZIP population65,725
Median age40 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · high schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academyalternative comparison groupCharterDeveloping5%23%School being viewed
Franklin HighPublicStrong25%53%2.9 mi
Laguna Creek HighPublicSolid19%41%1.8 mi
Valley HighPublicDeveloping13%38%2.6 mi
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Is SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy a good high school?
SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy has a Scope Score of 20 out of 100, placing it in the 47th percentile of California alternative high schools and ranked #59 in that group. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. 5.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 14.4 percentage points below the California average of 19.8%. The Scope Score weights 7 dimensions for high schools: graduation rate (25%), exceeded standard (22%), college/career readiness (20%), met or exceeded (proficient) (18%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 22.6% of students at SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 5.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 17.2% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 5.4% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 204 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy rank among California alternative schools?
SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy ranks #59 among California alternative high schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 47th percentile. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy?
24.7% of students at SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 23.1%. The suspension rate is 1.3%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy compare to other schools in Elk Grove?
SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy scores 20/100 (47th percentile) among California alternative high schools. This is a rank inside that group, not a statewide one: SchoolScope compares alternative schools with one another rather than with California's comprehensive campuses, so it cannot be read against a statewide figure. Why these schools are ranked separately. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. Use the schools in Elk Grove page or the map view to compare all high schools nearby.
How does SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy in Elk Grove, 29.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 15.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (1.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 6.6 percentage points for black students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 92 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Graduation rate52.7%92.5%25%
Exceeded standard5.4%19.8%22%
College readiness0.0%43.0%20%
Met or exceeded22.6%43.2%18%
Chronic absenteeism24.7%23.1%5%
Suspension rate1.3%3.3%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures graduation, test performance, college readiness, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy: reading the evidence

SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy posts 23% meeting the standard and 5.4% exceeding it, against 43% and 19.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

Explore the underlying data →
Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy is ranked #59 of California alternative high schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Graduation rate52.7%92.5%25%
Exceeded standard5.4%19.8%22%
College readiness0.0%43.0%20%
Met or exceeded22.6%43.2%18%
Chronic absenteeism24.7%23.1%5%
Suspension rate1.3%3.3%5%
Graduation rate
↓ vs CA 92.5% · index 14 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 19.8% · index 38 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
College readiness
↓ vs CA 43.0% · index 31 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 43.2% · index 40 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 23.1% · index 54 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint · ▲ 6.4pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.3% · index 60 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 7147%14%7%71%21%−26
Grade 8166%6%19%69%13%−34
Grade 1110210%31%22%37%41%−7
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 7147%0%36%57%7%−27
Grade 8160%0%6%94%0%−32
Grade 111021%3%15%81%4%−20

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)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide931%13%68%18%

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 · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged9229.3%−16−9
Hispanic/Latino7037.1%−6−2
Students with Disabilities3221.9%+3+5
03Nearest high schoolssorted by Scope Score
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Susp
SAVA - Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy ←205.4%22.6%1.3%
Franklin High2.9 mi6325.1%53.0%3.8%
Laguna Creek High1.8 mi5418.8%41.1%4.7%
Valley High2.6 mi4912.6%38.2%9.7%
California average5419.8%43.2%3.3%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
Graduation Rate
52.7%
AP Exam Prepared
Not offered
This school may not offer AP courses
A-G Completion
0.0%
This school may not offer A-G courses
College-Going Rate
35.2%
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSusp
20191753#521.1%15.6%19.2%1.1%
20221846#572.1%18.8%28.6%0.8%
20231949#552.9%18.3%27.0%0.8%
20241953#523.6%15.8%18.3%1.3%
20252047#595.4%22.6%24.7%1.3%
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — This school's rank and percentile are computed against California alternative high schools, not California's comprehensive campuses — see the Enrollment Axiom at /methodology#peer-class.
05College destinationsclass of 2023 · CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate
ShowHide table 05 — College destinations
DestinationCompleters% (derived)
University of California10.9%
California State University10.9%
California community college2926.9%
In-state private76.5%
Out-of-state, 4-year00.0%
Out-of-state, 2-year00.0%
Not enrolled7064.8%

108 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 35% · % column is computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers), not a CDE-native rate · a missing cell is CDE suppression, never a fabricated zero · source: CDE 12-mo CGR, 2023 cohort (the newest published), National Student Clearinghouse match — a different, older vintage than the fall 2025 UC admissions rows in tables 06-07 above.

06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−1819Moderate−2119Minimal
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1919Moderate−2219Minimal
Hispanic or Latino−1415Moderate−1715Moderate
English Only−2712not categorised−2012not categorised

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=1,647 high schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · CDE 12-mo CGR 2023 cohort, National Student Clearinghouse match · Data updated 2026-09-18

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