South/West Park Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
South/West Park posts 42% meeting the standard and 24.9% 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 | 46 | 25% | 42% | -1.3 | 22.9% | 9.2% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
South/West Park Elementary scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 59th 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 “42% proficient” and call it done. South/West Park deserves a closer read. The school sits in Tracy, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 25th to the 59th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1800 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 42% of students meet the standard today, above the 30% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 30% | 23% | 33% | 34% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 31% | 35% | 29% | 39% | 36% |
| Grade 5 | 39% | 24% | 44% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 31% | 29% | 37% | 38% | 45% |
| Grade 4 | 27% | 33% | 31% | 41% | 39% |
| Grade 5 | 21% | 19% | 29% | 31% | 41% |
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 rises 3.0pp across grades; the proficiency floor barely moves. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. 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 what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- 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 South/West Park Elementary in Tracy, 28.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 33.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. South/West Park Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 5.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (26.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 31.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 331 students tested.
8 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 falls by 2.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -3.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (40.4% vs 16.5%). 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
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.
$299 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 806 students, this school is well above 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), 39% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 50
Private alternatives nearby
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 | 135 | 25% | 19% | 15% | 41% | 44% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 148 | 25% | 11% | 14% | 50% | 36% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 142 | 28% | 17% | 21% | 34% | 45% | −3 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 137 | 26% | 19% | 23% | 31% | 45% | −0 |
| Grade 4 | 150 | 20% | 19% | 22% | 39% | 39% | −2 |
| Grade 5 | 145 | 25% | 17% | 19% | 40% | 41% | +6 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 146 | 16% | 23% | 44% | 17% |
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 | 331 | 28.1% | −6 | −10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 268 | 26.5% | −6 | −12 |
| English Learners | 163 | 9.8% | +1 | −1 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South/West Park Elementary ← | — | 46 | 24.9% | 41.8% | −1.3 | 9.2% |
| NextGeneration STEAM Academy | 2.7 mi | 54 | 26.9% | 50.0% | +11.5 | 1.8% |
| Art Freiler | 2.1 mi | 49 | 18.0% | 43.0% | +21.4 | 8.6% |
| Gladys Poet-Christian Elementary | 0.7 mi | 46 | 20.7% | 44.5% | −5.8 | 5.0% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 33 | 25 | #4153 | 13.0% | 29.7% | 11.5% | 6.0% | -0.5pp |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | #4113 | 14.1% | 27.2% | 43.3% | 7.1% | -4.5pp |
| 2023 | 35 | 40 | #3441 | 16.5% | 33.7% | 28.1% | 6.3% | +1.5pp |
| 2024 | 44 | 54 | #2614 | 20.5% | 37.2% | 22.7% | 6.8% | -0.1pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 59 | #2340 | 24.9% | 41.8% | 22.9% | 9.2% | -1.3pp |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 10 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 11.0% | 23.9% | +12.9pp |
| Male | 12.0% | 22.4% | +10.4pp |
| Asian | 4.0% | 10.0% | +6.0pp |
| Black/African American | 26.8% | 61.9% | +35.1pp |
| White | 4.2% | 25.0% | +20.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 11.2% | 23.5% | +12.3pp |
| Two or More Races | 20.0% | 16.0% | -4.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 16.9% | 37.7% | +20.8pp |
| English Learners | 10.3% | 17.5% | +7.2pp |
| Homeless | 10.5% | 32.3% | +21.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 12.7% | 26.1% | +13.4pp |
| All Students | 11.5% | 23.1% | +11.6pp |
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