Sunridge Charter: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Sunridge Charter posts 52% meeting the standard, and 21.2% 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 | 45 | 21% | 52% | +5.4 | 24.7% | 0.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Sunridge Charter scores 45 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 56th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “52% proficient” and call it done. Sunridge Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sebastopol, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Sunridge Charter's low-income kids hit 51.9% 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.
As a charter, Sunridge Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 82nd to the 56th percentile since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 52% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 35% | 63% | 67% | 39% | 54% |
| Grade 4 | 71% | 77% | 74% | 59% | 63% |
| Grade 5 | 67% | 38% | 76% | 68% | 67% |
| Grade 6 | 54% | 65% | 56% | 77% | 79% |
| Grade 7 | 97% | 82% | 85% | 77% | 70% |
| Grade 8 | 88% | 76% | 82% | 82% | 38% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 31% | 58% | 63% | 39% | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 42% | 68% | 52% | 44% | 59% |
| Grade 5 | 50% | 25% | 40% | 50% | 33% |
| Grade 6 | 42% | 31% | 24% | 55% | 57% |
| Grade 7 | 55% | 33% | 64% | 23% | 70% |
| Grade 8 | 48% | 38% | 50% | 53% | 38% |
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 falls 5.2pp across grades; the floor rises 13.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 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 how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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 Sunridge Charter in Sebastopol, 51.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 52.3% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Sunridge Charter trails its district average for low-income students by 0.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (51.9% Math proficient); White students (65.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 15.3 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 27 students tested.
6 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of TK/K students (41.7% vs 8.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
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.
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 256 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), 37% 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 53
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 56
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 | 28 | 29% | 25% | 25% | 21% | 54% | +10 |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 33% | 30% | 26% | 11% | 63% | +18 |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 23% | 43% | 30% | 3% | 67% | +19 |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 43% | 36% | 14% | 7% | 79% | +32 |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 39% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 70% | +22 |
| Grade 8 | 13 | 8% | 31% | 46% | 15% | 38% | −8 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 28 | 11% | 25% | 25% | 39% | 36% | −10 |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 15% | 44% | 15% | 26% | 59% | +18 |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 17% | 17% | 27% | 40% | 33% | −2 |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 36% | 21% | 25% | 18% | 57% | +22 |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 43% | 26% | 26% | 4% | 70% | +36 |
| Grade 8 | 13 | 8% | 31% | 8% | 54% | 38% | +6 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 43 | 14% | 23% | 56% | 7% |
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 | 27 | 51.9% | −0 | +14 |
| White | 109 | 65.1% | +3 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunridge Charter ← | — | 45 | 21.2% | 51.9% | +5.4 | 0.6% |
| Gravenstein Elementary | 2.9 mi | 56 | 35.8% | 65.5% | −4.7 | 1.0% |
| Sebastopol Independent Charter | 0.6 mi | 52 | 22.7% | 47.9% | +28.3 | 0.5% |
| Orchard View | 1.5 mi | 51 | 23.3% | 48.8% | — | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 62 | 82 | #965 | 21.9% | 49.1% | 16.5% | 0.1% | +25.6pp |
| 2022 | 31 | 37 | #3606 | 24.0% | 54.8% | 31.4% | 1.7% | -29.2pp |
| 2023 | 56 | 81 | #1105 | 30.0% | 61.9% | 32.9% | 1.6% | -6.6pp |
| 2024 | 51 | 69 | #1770 | 22.3% | 50.0% | 27.8% | 0.9% | +19.6pp |
| 2025 | 45 | 56 | #2541 | 21.2% | 51.9% | 24.7% | 0.6% | +5.4pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 21.7% | 19.7% | -2.0pp |
| Male | 10.4% | 31.5% | +21.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 22.2% | 27.8% | +5.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 24.1% | 18.2% | -5.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 26.3% | 33.3% | +7.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.8% | 31.2% | +16.4pp |
| All Students | 16.7% | 25.9% | +9.2pp |
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