Public school · El Rancho Unified · Pico Rivera, California

STEAM Academy @ Burke — Rating & test scores

Pico Rivera · 6–8 · 534 students (2024–25)

8101 Orange Avenue, 90660steam.erusd.org ↗(562) 801-7590
66thpercentileSolid

The dots are California’s 2,529 scored public middle schools, placed by Scope Score on spring 2026 tests. How it’s built →

Scope Score
45

Weighted composite · 2025–26
A weighted mix of six measures.

See this school’s score factors ↓
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100

Near California in English (reading and writing) and math: 53% and 35% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 6–8, spring 2026, against 49% and 37%.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 6–8: 485
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 6, 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,254,039 in English and 1,254,800 in math tested).

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”).

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56 of 498 students missed 10% or more of school days in 2025–26: about two thirds of the rate at the average El Rancho Unified middle school.

Sources
The sentence above
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2025–26. All students counted for chronic absence (CDE’s eligible enrollment): 498. District and California figures are averages of school rates (3 El Rancho Unified schools; 2,529 scored California middle schools), our calculation.

Common questions

How do I get in?

Ask El Rancho Unified which school serves your address. Evidence ↓

Is STEAM Academy @ Burke a good middle school?

STEAM Academy @ Burke scores higher than 66 in 100 of California’s 2,529 scored public middle schools: 66th percentile, Solid, spring 2026. Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 11 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 16 in 100 at the average El Rancho Unified middle school. 2.9% of students (15 of 509) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school. Evidence ↓

More questions (4)

Did students here score above what the state expected?

In English, below what the state expected; in math, about as expected. In 2025, students here in grades 6–8 scored −7 points against the state’s expected score in English, which the state calls Moderate. In math, they scored +2 points, which it calls Average.

  • Included in this measure: 504 students in English, 505 in math

Evidence ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 51% of low-income students in grades 6–8 at STEAM Academy @ Burke in Pico Rivera scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 39% for the same group across California. Evidence ↓

Where does it lead?

In the 2015–16 federal attendance-boundary survey, most of STEAM Academy @ Burke's attendance area fell inside the attendance area of El Rancho High. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education’s School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary doesn’t guarantee placement; confirm your address with the district.

  • El Rancho High: 50th percentile (Solid) of California’s regular public and charter high schools, 2025 Scope Score

Evidence ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Next steps, ready to copy. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Near California in both subjects.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2026

In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 53% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 35% in math, against 49% and 37% across California.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 6–8: 485
Comparison
California: CDE’s grades 6–8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,254,039 in English, 1,254,800 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.
AdvancedProficientBelow the standard

English

Grades 6–8 · spring 2026 · 485 tested

Advanced
19%
Proficient
34%
Below the standard
47%
This school53%
California49%
El Rancho Unified40%

53% Proficient or Advanced in grades 6–8.

Math

Grades 6–8 · spring 2026 · 485 tested

Advanced
18%
Proficient
17%
Below the standard
65%
This school35%
California37%
El Rancho Unified25%

35% Proficient or Advanced in grades 6–8.

Results for each grade, spring 2026English and math · grades 6–8 · every level, with tested counts

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced50%58%53%
Advanced20%17%19%
Proficient30%41%34%
Developing level26%24%23%
Minimal24%18%24%
Tested162154169
California48%51%49%
Difference+2+7+4

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced31%40%35%
Advanced14%19%21%
Proficient17%21%14%
Developing level26%28%20%
Minimal43%32%45%
Tested162154169
California37%38%36%
Difference−6+2−1

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →

How does math compare with English?

In grades 6–8, spring 2026, math trails English by 18 percentage points in the share who scored Proficient or Advanced, against 12 points across California. The grades 6–8 cards above give each subject’s share.

Have results changed?

English results were higher than in 2025; math results were similar. English went from 46% to 53% and math from 36% to 35%.

English · top two levels · grades 6–8

202546%520 tested
→
202653%485 tested

This school

California, same grades49% → 49%2025 → 2026 · 1,266,619 → 1,254,039 tested

Math · top two levels · grades 6–8

202536%526 tested
→
202635%485 tested

This school

California, same grades36% → 37%2025 → 2026 · 1,272,526 → 1,254,800 tested

Each year is a different group of students.

Did students here score above what the state expected?

In English, below what the state expected; in math, about as expected. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 6–8 scored −7 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Moderate. In math, they scored +2 points, which it calls Average.

Source
Source
CDE growth model, 2025
Students
students with scores in both years in grades 6–8: 504 in English, 505 in math
Comparison
Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Grades 6–8 · 2025 · 504 students in English, 505 in math, with scores in both years

Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.

−7 pts

English

The state calls it Moderate, the second of its five growth levels.

+2 pts

Math

The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

Ask: What extra help do students who are behind get, and how do you know it’s working?

All four levelsThe state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal, with tested counts
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 6–8 · This school19%34%25%22%485
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,254,039
English, grades 6–8 · El Rancho Unified12%28%26%34%1,447
Math, grades 6–8 · This school18%17%25%40%485
Math, grades 6–8 · California21%16%23%40%1,254,800
Math, grades 6–8 · El Rancho Unified11%14%26%49%1,445

Below the standard combines the state’s Developing and Minimal levels, its two lowest. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2026. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation). The district row combines its public schools in the same grades, weighted by students tested.

Read English and math separately, then look at progress and the courses students can take.

Each grade’s results: English ↑ · Math ↑

Results since 20178 tested years shown

Chart and table: 2017–2026.

English top two levels, grades 6–8
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202653%49%
Math top two levels, grades 6–8
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202635%37%

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional.

In grades 6–8, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 58% in 2017 to 53% in 2026. In math, it went from 37% in 2017 to 35% in 2026, with 2025 and 2026 about the same. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · top two levels · grades 6–8
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201758%
609 tested		48%
1,377,836 tested
201854%
611 tested		49%
1,391,379 tested
201960%
608 tested		50%
1,390,416 tested
202249%
485 tested		47%
1,277,584 tested
202347%
535 tested		46%
1,267,562 tested
202443%
538 tested		46%
1,269,432 tested
202546%
520 tested		49%
1,266,619 tested
202653%
485 tested		49%
1,254,039 tested
Math · top two levels · grades 6–8
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201737%
612 tested		37%
1,383,609 tested
201836%
611 tested		37%
1,394,516 tested
201942%
609 tested		38%
1,394,239 tested
202226%
486 tested		31%
1,279,506 tested
202329%
537 tested		32%
1,272,024 tested
202430%
541 tested		33%
1,277,570 tested
202536%
526 tested		36%
1,272,526 tested
202635%
485 tested		37%
1,254,800 tested
How the state’s growth measure worksPoints above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 7 points below that expected score, and in math 2 points above it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 8 scores here with the school’s grade 6 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

What you can do

Who can act on STEAM Academy @ Burke’s results?

El Rancho Unified’s board decides STEAM Academy @ Burke’s plan.

The state hasn’t placed STEAM Academy @ Burke in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

What has the state flagged?

The state is giving El Rancho Unified extra help in 2026. It qualified on the 2025 California School Dashboard. The county office must help the district for at least three years, including a review of its yearly plan.

Extra help for El Rancho Unified: CDE’s assistance status file for the 2025 California School Dashboard. Source 

When is the plan set, and how can you take part?

El Rancho Unified’s board must adopt its yearly plan (LCAP) by July 1, after at least one public hearing at an earlier meeting.

How to take part

  • Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  • Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  • Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  • Read the midyear report, due by February 28.
  • Read El Rancho Unified’s 2026–27 plan (LCAP, PDF) 

Life at school

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

11 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26.

State attendance and suspension records, 2025–26

That means they missed 10% or more of school days. At the average El Rancho Unified middle school, 16 in 100 were. 2.9% of students were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism and suspension files, 2025–26
Students
chronic absence: 56 of 498 students counted for it; suspension: 15 of 509 students enrolled during the year
Comparison
Each comparison is the rate at the average school (our average of school rates), not a pooled rate. Also: suspensions at the average El Rancho Unified middle school 5.4%.

Chronically absent, 2025–26

11 in 100This school
16 in 100At the average El Rancho Unified middle school
18 in 100At the average California middle school

56 of 498 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

Suspensions, 2025–26

2.9%

of students were suspended at least once (15 of 509). Average California middle school 3.7%.

Ask: When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?

Chronic absence by grade2025–26 · per 100 students, with counts
  • Grade 6: 10 in 100, 17 of 164
  • Grades 7–8: 12 in 100, 39 of 334
Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at STEAM Academy @ Burke

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

Questions for your visit ↓

Have a child here? Answer 7 questionsResponder en español

Teach here? Tell us El Rancho Unified’s email domain so staff can answer our workplace questions.

Every learner

How do kids like mine do here?

Hispanic or Latino and low-income students here scored well above the same groups across California in English.

Student groups, grades 6–8, spring 2026

Both groups score below California’s rate for all students statewide. 53% of Hispanic or Latino students scored Proficient or Advanced in English (grades 6–8, spring 2026), against 39% for the same group across California. Low-income students: 51% in English, against 39% for the same group across California.

Source
Source
California Department of Education, CAASPP research file, spring 2026
Students
grades 6–8; each row gives its tested count. Low-income is CDE’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged”.
Comparison
California: the same group in the same grades, CDE’s rows for the whole state combined and weighted by students tested (our calculation).
STEAM Academy @ BurkeSame group, CaliforniaAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students
  • Low-incomeEnglish · 388 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 51%Same group, California 39%
  • Low-incomeMath · 388 tested31%Same group, California 26%
  • Hispanic or LatinoEnglish · 470 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 53%Same group, California 39%
  • Hispanic or LatinoMath · 470 tested35%Same group, California 25%
  • Students with disabilitiesEnglish · 54 tested6%Same group, California 14%
  • Students with disabilitiesMath · 54 tested2%Same group, California 10%

Proficient or Advanced, grades 6–8, spring 2026.

Who are the students?

2025–26 · students counted
1. Hispanic or Latino: 97%Unallocated share: 3%. 100% minus available shares; not a student group.Reported shares2025–26
  1. Hispanic or Latino97%
  2. White—
  3. Asian—
  4. Black or African American—
  5. Filipino—
  6. Two or more races—
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native—
  8. Pacific Islander—
  9. Not reported—
  10. Unallocated share3%
A dash means the share isn’t available; it isn’t zero. The unallocated share is what’s left after the shares we have; it isn’t a student group. Source and comparisons: the full student mix below.

Are English learners moving up on the state’s English test?

67% of English learners here moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026.

Spring 2025 to spring 2026 · English learners with state English test (ELPAC) scores in both years

This school · 30 of 45 English learners67%
El Rancho Unified · 405 of 76453%
California · 355,274 of 748,91647%

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Data source: California Department of Education, 2026 Dashboard ↗.

Who are the families and teachers?

82%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 439 of 534. California: 63%.

23teachers, 2024–25

12 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

0%in their first year, 2024–25

74%of teaching positions with proper credential and placement, 2021–22

Ask: How does the school keep Hispanic or Latino and low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?

All group results, district comparisons and sources
Proficient or Advancedgrades 6–8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs El Rancho Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 388 tested
English51%+1338%+1239%
Math31%+823%+526%
Hispanic or Latino · 470 tested
English53%+1439%+1439%
Math35%+1025%+1025%
Students with disabilities · 54 tested
English6%−17%−814%
Math2%−24%−810%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in El Rancho Unified, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.

English learners, 35 tested: no rate for grade 7 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, White, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Full student mix, comparisons and sources, 2025–26
Students, 2025–26Here
Hispanic or Latino97%
White—
Asian—
Black or African American—
Filipino—
Two or more races—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—

Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.

How the credential rate is counted

CDE SARC report 2024–25, measured 2021–22: 74% of teaching positions, 17.6 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 23.8 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.

Next steps

What comes after STEAM Academy @ Burke, and how do I get in?

  1. Elementary
    Birney Tech Academy
    48th · Developing · 2026Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)
  2. Middle · this school
    STEAM Academy @ Burke
    Grades 6–8
  3. High
    El Rancho High
    50th · Solid · 2025Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

Historical links and nearby options · confirm your child’s address and current assignment with the district. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Elementary links

  • Birney Tech Academy

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    48th percentile · Developing · elementary · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

  • Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences

    Its zone partly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    65th percentile · Solid · elementary · 2026

    64% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

High-school links

  • El Rancho High

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    50th percentile · Solid · high · 2025

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

Where the path ends: El Rancho High
El Rancho High50th · Solid · 2025 · Scope Score 56historical direct overlap

The road from this school ends at El Rancho High. UC records 35 enrollees from El Rancho High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 16 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach El Rancho High around 2029, and a school can change a lot in 3 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 66% of the students who finished high school at El Rancho High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

35 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 16 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on El Rancho High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

How do I get in?

Ask El Rancho Unified which school serves your address.

School website: steam.erusd.org ↗Office: (562) 801-7590Administrator: Keri Kimes

Location and visiting

Get directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
8101 Orange Avenue, Pico Rivera 90660

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm which school serves your address with El Rancho Unified.

Questions for your visit

  1. What extra help do students who are behind get, and how do you know it’s working? 65% in math scored at the Developing or Minimal level, grades 6–8, spring 2026 (485 students tested); California: 63%
  2. When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?
  3. Which math courses can students take, and how are placements decided?
  4. Which electives and high-school transition supports are available?

Office (562) 801-75908101 Orange Avenue, directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Nearby middle schoolsClosest first, by straight-line distance

The closest middle schools, by straight-line distance from this campus. Distance isn’t an attendance boundary.

Nearby middle schoolsPercentile among California middle schools, 2026

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.

Explore nearby schools on the map

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #838 of 2,529 California middle schools we score · #1 of 3 in El Rancho Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math18%5142%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math44%5323%
8th graders in 2026 against 6th graders in 2024 (partly different children)+54 scale-score pts5820%
Chronically absent11 in 100595%
Suspension rate2.9% (15 of 509)535%
English learners: top level28%595%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California middle schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–264566#838California middle schools · 2,529 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–196 in 1005.3% (34 of 642)−7
2021–22not on filenot on file−8
2022–23not on filenot on file+11
2023–2417 in 1005.3% (31 of 585)−1
2024–2517 in 1000.7% (4 of 554)−2
2025–2611 in 1002.9% (15 of 509)+3

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 6 and grade 8 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English48519%53%
2026 · Math48518%35%
2025 · English52016%46%
2025 · Math52618%36%
2024 · English53814%43%
2024 · Math54113%30%
2023 · English53514%47%
2023 · Math53711%29%
2022 · English48516%49%
2022 · Math48610%26%
2019 · English60819%60%
2019 · Math60917%42%
2018 · English61115%54%
2018 · Math61113%36%
2017 · English60914%58%
2017 · Math61216%37%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 6 · English15445%
2025 · Grade 7 · English17451%
2025 · Grade 8 · English19241%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math15637%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math17632%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math19438%
2024 · Grade 6 · English17644%
2024 · Grade 7 · English19646%
2024 · Grade 8 · English16637%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math17723%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math19836%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math16628%
2023 · Grade 6 · English19839%
2023 · Grade 7 · English17554%
2023 · Grade 8 · English16249%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math19821%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math17833%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math16135%
2022 · Grade 6 · English16147%
2022 · Grade 7 · English16064%
2022 · Grade 8 · English16435%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math16123%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math16036%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math16518%
2019 · Grade 6 · English20760%
2019 · Grade 7 · English19666%
2019 · Grade 8 · English20553%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math20744%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math19744%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math20537%
2018 · Grade 6 · English19352%
2018 · Grade 7 · English20558%
2018 · Grade 8 · English21353%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math19333%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math20539%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math21335%
2017 · Grade 6 · English20055%
2017 · Grade 7 · English20962%
2017 · Grade 8 · English20058%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math20234%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math21038%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math20038%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide1698%21%60%10%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income38851%+13+12
Hispanic or Latino47053%+14+14
Students with disabilities546%−1−8
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students−7504Moderate+2505Average
Hispanic or Latino−8485Moderate+2486Average
Low-income−6349Moderate+1350Average
English-only students−8319not categorized+3320not categorized
English learners−10120Moderate−1120Average
Recently reclassified as fluent in English−478not categorized−678not categorized
Students with disabilities−3353Minimal−1854Moderate
Long-term English learners (grades 6–8 only)−1547Moderate+747Accelerated
English learners only−1942not categorized+642not categorized

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. Long-term English learner counts cover grades 6–8 only (CDE’s rule), so that row is not comparable to the All students row. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 6–8. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 8 against the same school’s grade 6 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 8 in 2026 against grade 6 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 6
10%
exceeded standard · 44% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 176 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 8
19%
Advanced · 53% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 169 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 169 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English−7 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 6–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 6–8

504 students

CDE growth category: Moderate

California growth model, English: −7 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Moderate, against SchoolScope's −2-point median for California middle school records.

State model · math+2 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 6–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 6–8

505 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, math: +2 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's −3-point median for California middle school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California middle school records, the median English estimate is −2 and the middle half fall between −10 and +5 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 6–8, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 17 in 100 → 2025–26 · 11 in 100 · −6 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 0.7% (4 of 554) → 2025–26 · 2.9% (15 of 509) · +2.2 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female4 in 10013 in 100+9 in 100
Male7 in 10010 in 100+3 in 100
Hispanic or Latino6 in 10011 in 100+5 in 100
Students with disabilities10 in 10025 in 100+15 in 100
English learners9 in 10018 in 100+9 in 100
Low-income7 in 10014 in 100+7 in 100
All students6 in 10011 in 100+5 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$13,381 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 7,985 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$377 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 534

Central federal expenditures attributed here$615 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 534

District current expense · FY 2024–25$22,837 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 57%Instruction support 12%Student services 10%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 12%Other 1%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$82,911,01356.58%57%
Instruction support$18,374,23712.54%12%
Student services$14,111,4959.63%10%
Administration$11,746,9738.02%8%
Buildings & maintenance$17,582,79312.00%12%
Other$1,805,1901.23%1%
Total$146,531,700100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $146,531,700 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$13,381 per pupil
2020$12,576 per pupil
2019$13,058 per pupil
2018$11,914 per pupil
2017$11,655 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders5.7%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 90660 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 90660 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$88,201
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16%
ZIP-area population60,272
Median age40.4 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 90660 →

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