Soto Street Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Soto Street posts 51% meeting the standard, and 15.0% 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+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 52 | 15% | 51% | -10.0 | 16.0% | 0.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Soto Street Elementary scores 52 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 70th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “51% proficient” and call it done. Soto Street deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Soto Street's low-income kids hit 51.8% 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 35th to the 70th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1800 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 51% of students meet the standard today, above the 34% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 36% | 41% | 29% | 44% | 42% |
| Grade 4 | 36% | 32% | 35% | 38% | 64% |
| Grade 5 | 17% | 27% | 31% | 46% | 43% |
| Grade 6 | 36% | 38% | 23% | 50% | 59% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 44% | 48% | 39% | 37% | 58% |
| Grade 4 | 31% | 7% | 38% | 33% | 60% |
| Grade 5 | 39% | 27% | 9% | 32% | 37% |
| Grade 6 | 45% | 38% | 12% | 30% | 39% |
Soto Street's most underrated number
51.8% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
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 changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Soto Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 51.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Soto Street Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 10.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (48.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (50.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 4.8 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 85 students tested.
5 of 11 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 4.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
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 (20.0% vs 11.6%). 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
$4,103 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 186 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 30% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 3 | 24 | 13% | 29% | 25% | 33% | 42% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 21% | 43% | 14% | 21% | 64% | +19 |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 10% | 33% | 13% | 43% | 43% | −5 |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 19% | 41% | 30% | 11% | 59% | +13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 24 | 13% | 46% | 13% | 29% | 58% | +13 |
| Grade 4 | 15 | 27% | 33% | 20% | 20% | 60% | +18 |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 7% | 30% | 27% | 37% | 37% | +1 |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 21% | 18% | 36% | 25% | 39% | +4 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 30 | 0% | 30% | 40% | 30% |
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 | 85 | 51.8% | +11 | +14 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 90 | 50.0% | +9 | +11 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soto Street Elementary ← | — | 52 | 15.0% | 50.7% | −10.0 | 0.7% |
| Multnomah Street Elementary | 2.9 mi | 60 | 35.3% | 63.0% | +3.8 | 0.4% |
| PUC Milagro Charter | 2.4 mi | 59 | 43.3% | 80.9% | −16.8 | 0.2% |
| Vernon City Elementary | 2.1 mi | 59 | 37.0% | 59.4% | −31.9 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 37 | 35 | #3575 | 12.5% | 33.9% | 21.6% | 0.1% | -11.7pp |
| 2022 | 24 | 16 | #4802 | 8.6% | 30.4% | 41.4% | 0.1% | -17.2pp |
| 2023 | 32 | 31 | #3928 | 9.7% | 30.3% | 31.9% | 0.1% | -13.6pp |
| 2024 | 40 | 45 | #3138 | 9.7% | 38.5% | 24.2% | 0.3% | -1.4pp |
| 2025 | 52 | 70 | #1738 | 15.0% | 50.7% | 16.0% | 0.7% | -10.0pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 26.7% | 15.0% | -11.7pp |
| Male | 18.9% | 16.0% | -2.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 22.3% | 15.3% | -7.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 25.0% | 18.3% | -6.7pp |
| English Learners | 20.3% | 21.7% | +1.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 21.6% | 16.7% | -4.9pp |
| All Students | 22.1% | 15.6% | -6.5pp |
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