Temperance-Kutner Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Temperance-Kutner posts 50% meeting the standard, and 22.6% 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 | 52 | 23% | 50% | -0.6 | 14.1% | 2.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Temperance-Kutner Elementary scores 52 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 71st percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “50% proficient” and call it done. Temperance-Kutner deserves a closer read. The school sits in Fresno, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Temperance-Kutner's low-income kids hit 52.0% 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 63rd to the 71st percentile since 2019 — past roughly 400 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 50% of students meet the standard today, above the 46% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 38% | 52% | 41% | 49% | 47% |
| Grade 4 | 54% | 36% | 32% | 41% | 53% |
| Grade 5 | 52% | 52% | 54% | 53% | 56% |
| Grade 6 | 51% | 35% | 33% | 47% | 65% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 43% | 56% | 52% | 52% | 53% |
| Grade 4 | 54% | 39% | 33% | 41% | 51% |
| Grade 5 | 39% | 33% | 32% | 38% | 43% |
| Grade 6 | 49% | 24% | 28% | 23% | 40% |
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 rises 5.0pp across grades; the floor rises 8.4pp. 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.
Temperance-Kutner's most underrated number
52.0% 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 Temperance-Kutner Elementary in Fresno, 52.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 55.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Temperance-Kutner Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 2.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (43.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (51.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 3.7 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 246 students tested.
7 of 15 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 7.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +2.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (23.7% vs 11.2%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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
$1,150 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), 48% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby Elementary Schools
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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 3 | 74 | 22% | 26% | 28% | 24% | 47% | +4 |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 24% | 29% | 19% | 28% | 53% | +8 |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 27% | 29% | 24% | 20% | 56% | +8 |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 25% | 40% | 19% | 16% | 65% | +19 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 76 | 28% | 25% | 25% | 22% | 53% | +7 |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 17% | 34% | 25% | 25% | 51% | +9 |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 19% | 24% | 34% | 23% | 43% | +8 |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 26% | 15% | 34% | 26% | 40% | +5 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 79 | 13% | 35% | 47% | 5% |
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 | 246 | 52.0% | −3 | +14 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 154 | 51.3% | −9 | +12 |
| Asian | 118 | 58.5% | −13 | −16 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temperance-Kutner Elementary ← | — | 52 | 22.6% | 50.4% | −0.6 | 2.4% |
| Roger S. Oraze Elementary | 2 mi | 55 | 31.3% | 58.5% | −5.3 | 1.5% |
| Reagan Elementary | 2.6 mi | 54 | 34.7% | 62.4% | +16.6 | 3.6% |
| Janet L. Young Elementary | 2 mi | 50 | 27.2% | 54.3% | +4.2 | 1.8% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 48 | 63 | #2055 | 20.1% | 46.5% | 8.5% | 3.6% | +4.9pp |
| 2022 | 36 | 51 | #2795 | 19.6% | 44.6% | 40.1% | 4.0% | -11.8pp |
| 2023 | 43 | 60 | #2301 | 16.9% | 40.6% | 20.5% | 3.2% | -3.5pp |
| 2024 | 42 | 50 | #2855 | 20.3% | 45.8% | 17.0% | 3.0% | -4.5pp |
| 2025 | 52 | 71 | #1650 | 22.6% | 50.4% | 14.1% | 2.4% | -0.6pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 8.6% | 13.1% | +4.5pp |
| Male | 8.4% | 14.7% | +6.3pp |
| Asian | 2.6% | 5.9% | +3.3pp |
| Black/African American | 36.1% | 29.0% | -7.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 10.1% | 19.4% | +9.3pp |
| Two or More Races | 13.3% | 9.5% | -3.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 8.9% | 23.6% | +14.7pp |
| English Learners | 1.9% | 7.1% | +5.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 9.9% | 16.6% | +6.7pp |
| All Students | 8.5% | 13.9% | +5.4pp |
| White | — | 0.0% | — |
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