Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet posts 54% meeting the standard, and 19.1% 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+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 59 | 19% | 54% | 100.0% | 63.6% | 26.1% | 0.7% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet scores 59 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 82nd percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “54% proficient” and call it done. Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sylmar, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet's low-income kids hit 73.0% 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.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 62nd to the 82nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 400 high schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 54% of students meet the standard today, above the 28% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 50% | 65% | 79% | 68% | 73% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 6% | 20% | 26% | 20% | 35% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 54 are proficient by 11th grade → 100 graduate → 64 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet's most underrated number
73.0% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 6 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 whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet in Sylmar, 73.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet outperforms its district average for low-income students by 32.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (34.9% Math proficient); Hispanic students (71.7% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 63 students tested.
6 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
$1,836 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 205 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 41% 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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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 63 | 30% | 43% | 17% | 10% | 73% | +26 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 63 | 8% | 27% | 37% | 29% | 35% | +12 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 63 | 2% | 40% | 57% | 2% |
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 | 63 | 73.0% | +32 | +35 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 60 | 71.7% | +31 | +33 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet ← | — | 59 | 19.1% | 54.0% | — | 0.7% |
| PUC Lakeview Charter High | 1.1 mi | 59 | 23.8% | 59.4% | — | 0.8% |
| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En | 1.8 mi | 56 | 16.9% | 43.0% | — | 0.6% |
| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Social Justice | 1.8 mi | 54 | 10.0% | 35.4% | — | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 51 | 62 | #784 | 6.5% | 28.2% | 23.5% | 2.5% | — |
| 2022 | 55 | 78 | #468 | 15.2% | 42.4% | 37.0% | 1.4% | — |
| 2023 | 60 | 86 | #306 | 25.0% | 52.4% | 28.9% | 1.5% | — |
| 2024 | 54 | 75 | #541 | 10.2% | 44.3% | 28.0% | 1.1% | — |
| 2025 | 59 | 82 | #388 | 19.1% | 54.0% | 26.1% | 0.7% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 25.9% | 24.0% | -1.9pp |
| Male | 19.7% | 25.5% | +5.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 21.8% | 26.5% | +4.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 17.5% | 31.6% | +14.1pp |
| English Learners | 21.4% | — | — |
| Homeless | 30.8% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.7% | 24.0% | +1.3pp |
| All Students | 22.8% | 24.8% | +2.0pp |
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