School of Engineering & Sciences: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
School of Engineering & Sciences posts 46% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 52 | 22% | 46% | 98.5% | 33.3% | 17.0% | 7.5% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
School of Engineering & Sciences scores 52 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 68th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “46% proficient” and call it done. School of Engineering & Sciences deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where three in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 29.6% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 68th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 46% meet the standard today, versus 55% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 49% | 51% | 48% | 46% | 44% |
| Grade 8 | 53% | 42% | 41% | 41% | 48% |
| Grade 11 | 70% | 52% | 69% | 59% | 60% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 34% | 34% | 46% | 38% | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 40% | 21% | 28% | 32% | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 41% | 29% | 29% | 31% | 31% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 46 are proficient by 11th grade → 99 graduate → 33 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 7 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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 School of Engineering & Sciences in Sacramento, 47.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. School of Engineering & Sciences outperforms its district average for low-income students by 18.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (42.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 44.9 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 193 students tested.
5 of 16 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 7–8 students (15.8% vs 10.1%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$350 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
At 542 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 33% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 38
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Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 109 | 10% | 34% | 25% | 31% | 44% | −4 |
| Grade 8 | 130 | 13% | 35% | 28% | 23% | 48% | +2 |
| Grade 11 | 58 | 29% | 31% | 29% | 10% | 60% | +13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 110 | 17% | 18% | 26% | 38% | 35% | +1 |
| Grade 8 | 130 | 6% | 19% | 26% | 48% | 25% | −7 |
| Grade 11 | 58 | 16% | 16% | 36% | 33% | 31% | +8 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 193 | 11% | 22% | 57% | 10% |
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 | 193 | 47.7% | +18 | +9 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 161 | 42.9% | +10 | +4 |
| Asian | 40 | 65.0% | +20 | −9 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School of Engineering & Sciences ← | — | 52 | 22.4% | 45.7% | — | 7.5% |
| John F. Kennedy High | 0.8 mi | 43 | 8.3% | 26.5% | — | 10.2% |
| New Technology High | 2.4 mi | 33 | 8.8% | 16.2% | — | 7.9% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 58 | 76 | #492 | 26.1% | 55.4% | 11.7% | 3.4% | — |
| 2022 | 48 | 62 | #804 | 14.7% | 40.7% | 30.2% | 7.0% | — |
| 2023 | 50 | 68 | #681 | 18.6% | 49.2% | 23.7% | 8.9% | — |
| 2024 | 51 | 70 | #650 | 22.6% | 45.2% | 19.4% | 7.3% | — |
| 2025 | 52 | 68 | #686 | 22.4% | 45.7% | 17.0% | 7.5% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.4% | 16.4% | +7.0pp |
| Male | 12.0% | 11.5% | -0.5pp |
| Asian | 3.8% | 12.5% | +8.7pp |
| Black/African American | 14.8% | 27.9% | +13.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.3% | 13.3% | +0.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 20.7% | 14.6% | -6.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 21.9% | 19.5% | -2.4pp |
| English Learners | 7.3% | 11.3% | +4.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 12.6% | 16.9% | +4.3pp |
| All Students | 11.0% | 13.2% | +2.2pp |
| White | — | 0.0% | — |
| Homeless | — | 27.3% | — |
| Military-Connected | — | 16.7% | — |
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