Sierra-Enterprise Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Sierra-Enterprise posts 35% meeting the standard and 12.9% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42 | 13% | 35% | -1.4 | 32.9% | 1.8% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Sierra-Enterprise Elementary scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 50th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “35% proficient” and call it done. Sierra-Enterprise deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 20th to the 50th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1600 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 27% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 29% | 46% | 30% | 35% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 36% | 28% | 40% | 38% | 37% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 44% | 34% | 41% | 42% |
| Grade 6 | 33% | 27% | 38% | 34% | 47% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27% | 39% | 27% | 28% | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 30% | 24% | 30% | 35% | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 16% | 27% | 8% | 23% | 27% |
| Grade 6 | 30% | 11% | 35% | 23% | 33% |
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 4.6pp. 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside 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 Sierra-Enterprise Elementary in Sacramento, 36.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Sierra-Enterprise Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 8.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (29.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.3 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 232 students tested.
9 of 17 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency 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 7.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +2.0pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (44.4% vs 27.0%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,202 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 25% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 48
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 25
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 64 | 14% | 23% | 27% | 36% | 38% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 19% | 19% | 21% | 41% | 37% | −7 |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 13% | 29% | 17% | 41% | 42% | −6 |
| Grade 6 | 72 | 15% | 32% | 25% | 28% | 47% | +1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 64 | 8% | 27% | 28% | 38% | 34% | −11 |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 13% | 20% | 39% | 28% | 33% | −8 |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 10% | 17% | 28% | 45% | 27% | −8 |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 17% | 16% | 30% | 37% | 33% | −2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 77 | 10% | 14% | 60% | 16% |
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 | 232 | 36.6% | −9 | −2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 107 | 29.0% | −14 | −10 |
| Asian | 89 | 51.7% | −10 | −23 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra-Enterprise Elementary ← | — | 42 | 12.9% | 35.3% | −1.4 | 1.8% |
| California Montessori Project - Capitol Campus | 2.9 mi | 50 | 27.3% | 48.4% | −6.7 | 1.7% |
| Golden Empire Elementary | 1.1 mi | 49 | 18.1% | 47.1% | +6.8 | 3.4% |
| Growth Public | 2.6 mi | 46 | 14.1% | 34.3% | −11.8 | 0.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 31 | 20 | #4428 | 8.8% | 27.3% | 18.3% | 4.1% | -6.3pp |
| 2022 | 25 | 20 | #4564 | 13.9% | 34.6% | 51.4% | 0.4% | -6.4pp |
| 2023 | 31 | 28 | #4098 | 10.6% | 28.1% | 41.8% | 0.7% | -7.5pp |
| 2024 | 32 | 24 | #4385 | 15.2% | 33.3% | 33.4% | 1.4% | +0.8pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 50 | #2873 | 12.9% | 35.3% | 32.9% | 1.8% | -1.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 18.9% | 32.0% | +13.1pp |
| Male | 18.0% | 35.6% | +17.6pp |
| Asian | 9.4% | 18.8% | +9.4pp |
| Black/African American | 32.0% | 50.8% | +18.8pp |
| White | 20.0% | 18.2% | -1.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 21.9% | 42.4% | +20.5pp |
| Two or More Races | 27.0% | 25.4% | -1.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 24.1% | 44.3% | +20.2pp |
| English Learners | 12.2% | 26.1% | +13.9pp |
| Homeless | 57.1% | 52.6% | -4.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.1% | 36.3% | +16.2pp |
| All Students | 18.4% | 33.9% | +15.5pp |
| Pacific Islander | — | 41.7% | — |
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