Sierra High: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Sierra posts 58% meeting the standard, and 25.7% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 54 | 26% | 58% | 96.4% | 36.2% | 32.7% | 5.7% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Sierra High scores 54 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 72nd 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 “58% proficient” and call it done. Sierra deserves a closer read. The school sits in Tollhouse, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Sierra's low-income kids hit 76.0% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 58th to the 72nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 300 high schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 58% of students meet the standard today, above the 42% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 61% | 63% | 45% | 62% | 76% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 24% | 23% | 18% | 30% | 40% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 58 are proficient by 11th grade → 96 graduate → 36 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 6 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 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 Sierra High in Tollhouse, 76.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 30.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Sierra High outperforms its district average for low-income students by 45.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.0% Math proficient); White students (82.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 11.7 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 25 students tested.
5 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$475 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 367 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 26% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 68 | 38% | 38% | 12% | 12% | 76% | +29 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 68 | 13% | 26% | 29% | 31% | 40% | +16 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 92 | 3% | 23% | 63% | 11% |
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 | 25 | 76.0% | +45 | +38 |
| White | 41 | 82.9% | +34 | +21 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra High ← | — | 54 | 25.7% | 58.1% | — | 5.7% |
| Sierra Alternative High | 0.1 mi | 36 | 18.2% | 40.9% | — | 5.4% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 50 | 58 | #855 | 15.3% | 42.4% | 22.7% | 5.4% | — |
| 2022 | 49 | 64 | #746 | 17.8% | 43.0% | 35.0% | 6.2% | — |
| 2023 | 44 | 51 | #1060 | 13.1% | 31.4% | 29.6% | 10.1% | — |
| 2024 | 50 | 67 | #701 | 22.3% | 45.9% | 28.2% | 7.7% | — |
| 2025 | 54 | 72 | #604 | 25.7% | 58.1% | 32.7% | 5.7% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 23.1% | 36.6% | +13.5pp |
| Male | 20.6% | 29.6% | +9.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 17.9% | 37.0% | +19.1pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 37.7% | 39.2% | +1.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 39.1% | 41.4% | +2.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 31.1% | 38.7% | +7.6pp |
| All Students | 22.0% | 32.9% | +10.9pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 26.1% | — |
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