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Semitropic Elementary — Rating & test scores

25300 Highway 46, Wasco · 140 students · Grades TK–8

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Scope Score 67

Needs SupportScope Score · 6th percentile. Higher than 6 in 100 of the 5,726 California public elementary schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Well below California in English (reading and writing) and math, grade 4, spring 2026: 17% and 8% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 46% and 42%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grade 4: 12
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 4 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 407,721 in English and 408,677 in math tested).

For grades 6–8, the standing among California middle schools is in Tests ↓

Overview

Is Semitropic Elementary a good elementary school?

Needs Support. Semitropic Elementary is higher than most California elementary schools on attendance. Semitropic Elementary is lower than most on test results and progress in both subjects.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced317%
Math, Proficient or Advanced18%
English, Advanced10%
Math, Advanced10%

Progress in a year, 2025

English390 pts
Math1−24 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance5114 in 100
Semitropic Elementary’s place among California elementary schools, out of 100Bar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

21 of 155 students missed 10% or more of school days in 2025–26, against 17 in 100 at the average California elementary school.

Each bar is Semitropic Elementary’s place among 5,726 California public elementary schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 3–5. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Source for the sentence
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2025–26. All students counted for chronic absence (CDE’s eligible enrollment): 155. The California figure is an average of school rates (5,726 scored California elementary schools), our calculation.

Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

In English, about the same. In math, lower. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 6–8 scored the same in English as California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Average. In math, they scored 24 points lower, which the state calls Minimal.

English

0

The same as California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Hispanic or Latino76+1 points
Low-income76−1 points
English learners55+1 points
Long-term English learners13−5 points

Math

−24

points lower than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Minimal, the lowest of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Hispanic or Latino76−26 points
Low-income76−23 points
English learners55−27 points
Long-term English learners13−19 points

Grades 4 and 6–8, 2025, 79 students with scores in both years. Faded rows have fewer than 40 students. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored right at that expected score, and in math 24 points below it.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Schools like it

How does Semitropic Elementary compare with schools like it?

Semitropic Elementary’s Scope Score is 67. 648 California elementary schools, counting Semitropic Elementary, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 75. Semitropic Elementary’s result is higher than 23 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 648

  1. Students from low-income families: 64%

    Scope Score 96Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 62%

    Scope Score 93Strong · 97th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 63%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 97th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 55%

    Scope Score 91Strong · 95th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 56%

    Scope Score 91Strong · 95th percentile

648 California public elementary schools where 55% to 67% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public elementary school we score where 55% to 67% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Semitropic Elementary’s share. The count includes Semitropic Elementary. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

There’s no spring 2025 result to compare with spring 2026: fewer than 11 students tested here that year, so CDE withheld it.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grade 4. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo testsNo comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%201720182019202220232024202621%46%CaliforniaCalifornia17%Semitropic ElementaryThis school

Math

No comparable testsNo testsNo comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%201720182019202220232024202614%42%CaliforniaCalifornia8%Semitropic ElementaryThis school

The hatched block marks years with no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Between 12 and 29 students were tested here each year in each subject. With 12 students, one student is 8 points, so each year is a dot and no line joins them. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now.

English, grade 4: share at the top two levels
SpringSemitropic ElementaryCaliforniaTested here
201721%45%29
201822%49%23
20199%49%23
202224%44%21
202337%44%19
20240%44%20
202617%46%12
Math, grade 4: share at the top two levels
SpringSemitropic ElementaryCaliforniaTested here
201714%40%29
20184%43%23
20194%45%23
202219%38%21
202337%41%19
202415%41%20
20268%42%12

A year is missing where fewer than the state’s minimum number of students tested and the state withheld the result.

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

17% of the 12 students tested scored Proficient or Advanced in English; 8% did in math.

English

17%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

75817
California46%

Math

8%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

58348
California42%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grade 4, spring 2026, 17% of the 12 students tested scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 46% across California. In math, 8% did, against 42% across California. Fewer than 30 students tested, so one year’s result can change a lot. Ask how results looked in other years.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grade 4 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

How do the middle grades do?

Well below California in both subjects. In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 23% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 5% in math, against 49% and 37% across California. The middle grades are placed separately: 6th percentile (Needs Support) among California’s middle schools.

English

23%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

453221
California49%

Math

5%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

7520
California37%
Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advancedsuppressed17%suppressed
Advancedsuppressed0%suppressed
Proficientsuppressed17%suppressed
Developing levelsuppressed8%suppressed
Minimalsuppressed75%suppressed
Tested10129
California44%46%49%
Difference—−29—
English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced14%33%24%
Advanced0%0%5%
Proficient14%33%19%
Developing level27%24%43%
Minimal59%43%33%
Tested222121
California48%51%49%
Difference−34−18−25

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advancedsuppressed8%suppressed
Advancedsuppressed0%suppressed
Proficientsuppressed8%suppressed
Developing levelsuppressed34%suppressed
Minimalsuppressed58%suppressed
Tested10129
California47%42%37%
Difference—−34—
Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced0%10%5%
Advanced0%0%0%
Proficient0%10%5%
Developing level27%14%19%
Minimal73%76%76%
Tested222121
California37%38%36%
Difference−37−28−31

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grade 4 · This school0%17%8%75%12
English, grade 4 · California25%21%20%34%407,721
Math, grade 4 · This school0%8%34%58%12
Math, grade 4 · California20%22%28%30%408,677
English, grades 6–8 · This school2%21%32%45%64
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,254,039
Math, grades 6–8 · This school0%5%20%75%64
Math, grades 6–8 · California21%16%23%40%1,254,800

Spring 2026, grade 4 combined: 12 tested in English, 12 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

Hispanic or Latino students are the largest group here, at 94% of students. 21 of 155 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

14in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (21 of 155 students).

At the average California elementary school: 17 in 100.

No district average: Semitropic Elementary is the only regular elementary school we rank in the Semitropic Elementary district with an attendance record.

Suspensions: 3.8% of students were suspended at least once (6 of 157). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Students, 2024–25

140

students in grades TK–8.

Hispanic or Latino 94%

Family income

61%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 86 of 140. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

10

teachers, with 12 years of experience on average.

0% were in their first year.

83% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

52%

of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (24 of 46 students).

Semitropic Elementary: 52%. California: 47%.

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Sources: California Department of Education and the California School Dashboard. Each tile names its year.

Missing school, by grade
Grades 4–6
7 of 50 students in grades 4–6 were chronically absent.
Grades 7–8
7 of 46 students in grades 7–8 were chronically absent.

Our records hold no figure for Grades TK–3.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
Hispanic or Latino94%
White—
Asian—
Black or African American—
Filipino—
Two or more races—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. English learner progress: California School Dashboard, 2026 . Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 9.1 of 11 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Low-income and Hispanic or Latino students scored well below the same groups across California.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • Low-incomeEnglish · 75 tested21%California 38%
  • Low-incomeMath · 75 tested4%California 27%
  • Hispanic or LatinoEnglish · 60 tested25%California 39%
  • Hispanic or LatinoMath · 60 tested5%California 25%

21% of low-income students scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 4% in math (grades 4 and 6–8, spring 2026), against 38% and 27% for the same group across California. Hispanic or Latino students: 25% in English and 5% in math, against 39% and 25% for the same group across California.

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 4 and 6–8, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 4 and 6–8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Semitropic Elementaryvs California
Low-income · 75 tested
English21%021%−1738%
Math4%04%−2327%
Hispanic or Latino · 60 tested · grades 6–8 only
English25%025%−1439%
Math5%05%−2025%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Semitropic Elementary, and across California. No group that is behind across California does 10 or more points better here.

No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, White, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races, English learners, students with disabilities and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Semitropic Elementary. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
  2. The questions are about the school, never a person.No question asks about a named teacher or staff member.
  3. Answers are never part of the Scope Score.They sit beside the state’s records and do not change a school’s score.

Families

No family answers yet

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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

Answer the family questionsResponder en españolHow family answers work

Staff

Staff can’t answer for this school yet

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The school day

What is the school day like?

Semitropic Elementary has transitional kindergarten (TK). Our records do not hold school hours or before- and after-school care yet. Ask the office.

Transitional kindergarten (TK), 2025–26

4

TK students in 2025–26.

TK is California’s free public program for four-year-olds.

TK count: California Department of Education, Census Day enrollment, 2025–26. Find TK schools near you

Money

Where does the money go?

$31,486 for each student in 2024–25. California’s elementary schools spent $20,288 for each student. Semitropic Elementary’s plan for 2026–27 covers $868,217.

$31,486

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$28,283
The school’s share of district office costs
$3,203
Of the total, from federal funds
$2,674
  • Semitropic Elementary$31,486
  • California elementary schools$20,288

The district and California figures combine their elementary schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 5,053 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

Semitropic Elementary’s yearly plan

$868,217

in the district’s plan for 2026–27

$661,579

planned for services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth

This is the district’s plan. It is not this school’s own budget. The plan has 3 goals. The district’s page lists each one. The plan covers $868,217 of $3 million in total budgeted spending. Source: Semitropic Elementary Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), 2026–27.

The neighborhood

What is the area around Semitropic Elementary like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 93280. They are not figures for the families at Semitropic Elementary.

Typical household income in a year

$51,388

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 93280.

Typical home value
$274,900
People who live in this ZIP code
27,407
Typical age
30.5 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
6%

What you can do

Who can act on Semitropic Elementary’s results?

Semitropic Elementary’s board decides its plan.

How to take part

  1. Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  2. Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  3. Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  4. Read the midyear report, due by February 28.

State support

The state hasn’t placed Semitropic Elementary in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

Reading screening in kindergarten through grade 2

California law requires schools to screen kindergartners through second graders for reading difficulties every year, with some exceptions. You get notice at least 15 days before, results within 45 days, and can opt out in writing.

Kindergartners can’t be screened before the 91st school day; transitional kindergarten isn’t covered.

If screening shows your child may be at risk for reading difficulties, the school must provide supports. That result isn’t a diagnosis, and screening can’t be used to delay a special-education evaluation.

Ask how many K–2 students screening found at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help.

California Education Code § 53008. Source 

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 5 questions to Semitropic Elementary. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What is the school doing about chronic absence?14 in 100 chronically absent, 2025–26 (21 of 155 students); 4 in 100 in 2024–25
  2. What changes for a student who falls behind in math?24 points lower in math than California students who had the same score the year before, grades 4 and 6–8, 2025 (79 students)
  3. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

How do I get in?

Semitropic Elementary runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Semitropic Elementary which school serves your address.

Where it is

Where is Semitropic Elementary?

Address
25300 Highway 46, Wasco 93280Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Wendy Castañeda LealAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated April 3, 2025.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 6 common questions

How do I get in?

Semitropic Elementary runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Semitropic Elementary which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Semitropic Elementary a good school?

Semitropic Elementary has a Scope Score of 67. It scored higher than 6 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools (Needs Support, 6th percentile, spring 2026).

  • Grades 6–8: higher than 6 in 100 California middle schools we score (6th percentile, Needs Support, spring 2026)

See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 14 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 17 in 100 at the average California elementary school. 3.8% of students (6 of 157) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

In English, about the same. In math, lower. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 6–8 scored the same in English as California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Average. In math, they scored 24 points lower, which the state calls Minimal.

  • Included in this measure: 79 students

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 21% of low-income students in grades 4, 6, 7 and 8 at Semitropic Elementary in Wasco scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 38% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #5,336 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math0%3342%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math12%3023%
Chronically absent14 in 100525%
Suspension rate3.8% (6 of 157)425%
English learners: top level12%475%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. The weights above add to 80%: the remaining 20%, for measures with no value here, is shared out among the measures above.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–26676#5336California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–1913 in 1000 of 224−8
2021–22not on filenot on file−33
2022–23not on filenot on file+26
2023–2417 in 1000 of 157—
2024–254 in 1003.3% (5 of 150)−6
2025–2614 in 1003.8% (6 of 157)—

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English951%19%
2026 · Math950%5%
2025 · English932%30%
2025 · Math932%11%
2024 · English1017%21%
2024 · Math10111%18%
2023 · English1048%25%
2023 · Math1048%16%
2022 · English1205%24%
2022 · Math1206%15%
2019 · English1434%18%
2019 · Math1432%6%
2018 · English1483%24%
2018 · Math1482%7%
2017 · English1583%20%
2017 · Math1583%11%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English1225%
2025 · Grade 4 · English6—
2025 · Grade 5 · English2030%
2025 · Grade 6 · English1833%
2025 · Grade 7 · English1644%
2025 · Grade 8 · English2124%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math1217%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math6—
2025 · Grade 5 · Math200%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math1817%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math1619%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math210%
2024 · Grade 3 · English9—
2024 · Grade 4 · English200%
2024 · Grade 5 · English1942%
2024 · Grade 6 · English1916%
2024 · Grade 7 · English1817%
2024 · Grade 8 · English1638%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math9—
2024 · Grade 4 · Math2015%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math1926%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math195%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math1828%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math1612%
2023 · Grade 3 · English170%
2023 · Grade 4 · English1937%
2023 · Grade 5 · English1753%
2023 · Grade 6 · English1921%
2023 · Grade 7 · English1729%
2023 · Grade 8 · English157%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math1712%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math1937%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math1712%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math195%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math1724%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math157%
2022 · Grade 3 · English1644%
2022 · Grade 4 · English2124%
2022 · Grade 5 · English2124%
2022 · Grade 6 · English1926%
2022 · Grade 7 · English215%
2022 · Grade 8 · English2227%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math1650%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math2119%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math215%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math1911%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math215%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math229%
2019 · Grade 3 · English2030%
2019 · Grade 4 · English239%
2019 · Grade 5 · English2129%
2019 · Grade 6 · English277%
2019 · Grade 7 · English3027%
2019 · Grade 8 · English229%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math2020%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math234%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math215%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math270%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math307%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math220%
2018 · Grade 3 · English229%
2018 · Grade 4 · English2322%
2018 · Grade 5 · English2722%
2018 · Grade 6 · English2520%
2018 · Grade 7 · English2218%
2018 · Grade 8 · English2945%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math229%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math234%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math274%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math254%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math229%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math2914%
2017 · Grade 3 · English277%
2017 · Grade 4 · English2921%
2017 · Grade 5 · English2520%
2017 · Grade 6 · English2214%
2017 · Grade 7 · English2938%
2017 · Grade 8 · English2619%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math277%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math2914%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math2512%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math225%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math2910%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math2615%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide303%30%43%23%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income7521%0−17
Hispanic or Latino (grades 6–8 only)6025%0−14
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students079Average−2479Minimal
Hispanic or Latino+176Average−2676Minimal
Low-income−176Average−2376Minimal
English learners+155Average−2755Minimal
English learners only−335not categorized−1735not categorized
Recently reclassified as fluent in English−320not categorized−3920not categorized
English-only students+1114not categorized−1314not categorized
Long-term English learners (grades 6–8 only)−513Average−1913Moderate

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. Long-term English learner counts cover grades 6–8 only (CDE’s rule), so that row is not comparable to the All students row. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 6–8. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure
California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English0 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 6–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 6–8

79 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, English: 0 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math−24 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 6–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 6–8

79 students

CDE growth category: Minimal

California growth model, math: −24 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Minimal, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 6–8, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 4 in 100 → 2025–26 · 14 in 100 · +10 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 3.3% (5 of 150) → 2025–26 · 3.8% (6 of 157) · +0.5 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female13 in 10010 of 72—
Male13 in 10011 of 83—
Hispanic or Latino12 in 10014 in 100+2 in 100
Students with disabilities3 of 165 of 24—
English learners8 in 1007 of 69—
Military families0 of 136 of 20—
Low-income13 in 10014 in 100+1 in 100
All students13 in 10014 in 100+1 in 100
Homeless—4 of 17—

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$16,718 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 170 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$2,674 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 140

District current expense · FY 2024–25$30,396 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 58%Instruction support 11%Student services 7%Administration 12%Buildings & maintenance 12%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$2,385,07958.39%58%
Instruction support$448,36710.98%11%
Student services$280,6026.87%7%
Administration$497,34912.18%12%
Buildings & maintenance$473,58011.59%12%
Total$4,084,976100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $4,084,976 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$16,718 per pupil
2020$13,288 per pupil
2019$12,383 per pupil
2018$13,851 per pupil
2017$12,664 per pupil
Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 93280 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 93280 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$51,388
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)6%
ZIP-area population27,407
Median age30.5 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 93280 →

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