Stanford Avenue Elementary: Scores climb 9.7 points from grade 3 to grade 5. But two in five miss a month of school or more.
Stanford Avenue's strongest signal is real. Attendance is the number to ask about — and both belong on the same page.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 43 | 7% | 23% | +9.7 | 41.2% | 3.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Stanford Avenue Elementary scores 43 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 50th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “23% proficient” and call it done. Stanford Avenue deserves a closer read. The school sits in Oroville, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +9.7pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 32nd to the 50th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 900 elementary schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 23% meet the standard today, versus 35% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 35% | 8% | 15% | 9% | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 36% | 16% | 27% | 28% | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 44% | 13% | 20% | 17% | 42% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 29% | 6% | 11% | 12% | 28% |
| Grade 4 | 37% | 22% | 15% | 25% | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 29% | 7% | 12% | 10% | 23% |
The story this school is actually telling
separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
of students miss a month or more of school, versus 17.9% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — the data can't say why.
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 11.8pp across grades; the floor rises 24.3pp. 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 how the school tracks and follows up on attendance. High absence often reflects community stress, not classroom quality — a visit will tell you which.
- 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 how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- Ask which schools families here actually choose next — the zoned path is only the default.
- 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.
How every group of students does here
At Stanford Avenue Elementary in Oroville, 21.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 23.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Stanford Avenue Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 2.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (16.7% Math proficient); White students (30.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 12.7 percentage points for two or more races students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 138 students tested.
7 of 14 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 22.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -2.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The zoned path continues to Ishi Hills Middle, which scores 15 points lower than this school — worth weighing alongside everything above. Families here often look at charter or magnet options for middle school.
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.
$800 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 44
Nearby Middle 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.
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 | 58 | 5% | 12% | 31% | 52% | 17% | −26 |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 5% | 15% | 26% | 54% | 20% | −25 |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 17% | 25% | 28% | 30% | 42% | −6 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 58 | 5% | 22% | 34% | 38% | 28% | −18 |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 2% | 7% | 31% | 61% | 8% | −33 |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 8% | 15% | 28% | 49% | 23% | −13 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 53 | 8% | 17% | 68% | 8% |
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 | 138 | 21.7% | −2 | −16 |
| White | 98 | 30.6% | +3 | −31 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 24 | 8.3% | −19 | −31 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford Avenue Elementary ← | — | 43 | 6.9% | 22.8% | +9.7 | 3.7% |
| STREAM Charter | 2.1 mi | 53 | 19.7% | 45.6% | −5.5 | 0.7% |
| Plumas Avenue Elementary | 2.1 mi | 44 | 10.3% | 34.0% | +8.7 | 3.2% |
| Wyandotte Academy | 0.9 mi | 35 | 11.9% | 31.2% | −33.7 | 5.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 36 | 32 | #3725 | 11.2% | 35.1% | 25.9% | 7.9% | +4.7pp |
| 2022 | 26 | 21 | #4520 | 4.6% | 12.0% | 50.8% | 4.9% | +2.7pp |
| 2023 | 23 | 10 | #5148 | 4.7% | 16.5% | 42.7% | 5.0% | +3.0pp |
| 2024 | 27 | 12 | #5068 | 4.1% | 17.0% | 43.8% | 6.2% | +2.6pp |
| 2025 | 43 | 50 | #2846 | 6.9% | 22.8% | 41.2% | 3.7% | +9.7pp |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 16 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 24.2% | 41.7% | +17.5pp |
| Male | 28.0% | 44.2% | +16.2pp |
| Asian | 16.7% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 41.2% | 53.3% | +12.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 34.5% | 43.2% | +8.7pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 28.6% | 46.2% | +17.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 22.5% | 51.7% | +29.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 29.1% | 47.0% | +17.9pp |
| English Learners | 17.6% | 36.8% | +19.2pp |
| Foster Youth | 41.2% | 20.0% | -21.2pp |
| Homeless | 55.3% | 54.2% | -1.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 28.7% | 46.4% | +17.7pp |
| All Students | 26.2% | 43.2% | +17.0pp |
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