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Spencer Valley Elementary

Santa Ysabel, CA · Grades TK-8 · 41 students · Spencer Valley Elementary

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DistrictSpencer Valley Elementary
PrincipalKelly Baas
GradesTK-8
Enrollment41 students

Math

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Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

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Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

41

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

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Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

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Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
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Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Where its students land

ELA52% met or exceeded
Exceeded 24%Met 28%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 24%
Math44% met or exceeded
Exceeded 12%Met 32%Nearly Met 40%Not Met 16%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 76th percentile of elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +8 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 73rd percentile of 7,519 reported schools.73rd pctile · +8 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +11 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 78th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.78th pctile · +11 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 10 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher10 · district 29
Teaching staff4 teachers
Avg. experience6.0 years
Fully credentialed100%
First-year teachers25%
PrincipalKelly Baas

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $43,108 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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.

$14,054 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $43,108, CA average $14,491$43,108 · spent at this school
Federal share$14,054 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$37,235 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 60%Instruction support 16%Student services 1%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 15%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$92,250 per pupil
2019$66,067 per pupil
2018$64,341 per pupil
2017$1,139 per pupil
2016$1,236 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

More than half of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 41 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.

Hispanic or Latino26.8% · district 57.8% · CA 56.1%
White48.8% · district 20.1% · CA 19.9%
Asian4.9% · district 3.1% · CA 10.2%
Other19.5% · district 8.3% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 34.1% · Male 65.8%
Free or reduced lunch53.7% · CA 64%
Median income$67K · CA $85K
Median home value$740K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+27% · CA 35%
ZIP population607
Median age37 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

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What are the alternatives?

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2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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A closer look at the evidence

Spencer Valley Elementary: reading the evidence

Spencer Valley is a school in Santa Ysabel. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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