Templeton High: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Templeton posts 52% meeting the standard, and 19.8% 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 | 56 | 20% | 52% | 99.0% | 47.8% | 10.4% | 1.1% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Templeton High scores 56 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 78th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “52% proficient” and call it done. Templeton deserves a closer read. The school sits in Templeton, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Templeton's low-income kids hit 63.2% 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
Has held the 78th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 52% meet the standard today, versus 60% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 76% | 70% | 58% | 73% | 74% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 43% | 33% | 33% | 39% | 31% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 52 are proficient by 11th grade → 99 graduate → 48 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Templeton's most underrated number
63.2% 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 what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into 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 Templeton High in Templeton, 63.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 48.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Templeton High outperforms its district average for low-income students by 15.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.1% Math proficient); White students (82.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 18.2 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 57 students tested.
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
$267 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 725 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
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.
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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 | 177 | 29% | 45% | 18% | 8% | 74% | +27 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 175 | 10% | 21% | 25% | 44% | 31% | +8 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 185 | 10% | 26% | 58% | 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 | 57 | 63.2% | +15 | +25 |
| White | 112 | 82.1% | +23 | +20 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 43 | 55.8% | +7 | +17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templeton High ← | — | 56 | 19.8% | 52.4% | — | 1.1% |
| Templeton Independent Study High | 0.3 mi | 40 | 10.6% | 31.8% | — | 1.2% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 63 | 85 | #313 | 31.8% | 59.5% | 13.9% | 2.2% | — |
| 2022 | 58 | 82 | #377 | 25.8% | 51.3% | 21.9% | 2.1% | — |
| 2023 | 54 | 76 | #507 | 20.4% | 45.2% | 18.8% | 3.1% | — |
| 2024 | 58 | 83 | #361 | 25.4% | 55.9% | 13.5% | 2.8% | — |
| 2025 | 56 | 78 | #477 | 19.8% | 52.4% | 10.4% | 1.1% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 16.7% | 9.6% | -7.1pp |
| Male | 9.8% | 7.7% | -2.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 14.9% | 12.3% | -2.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 15.4% | 7.8% | -7.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 11.9% | 24.3% | +12.4pp |
| English Learners | 14.3% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 21.1% | 10.1% | -11.0pp |
| All Students | 12.9% | 8.6% | -4.3pp |
| Filipino | — | 21.4% | — |
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