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Tetzlaff (Martin B.) Middle

Cerritos, CA · Grades 7-8 · 542 students · ABC Unified

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69% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 47% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

47%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

69%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

542

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

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Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 50%2022: 44%2023: 40%2024: 50%2025: 47%2019: 62%2022: 70%2023: 62%2024: 65%2025: 69%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 50%2022: 44%2023: 40%2024: 50%2025: 47%2019: 62%2022: 70%2023: 62%2024: 65%2025: 69%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201950%62%
202244%70%
202340%62%
202450%65%
202547%69%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Where its students land

ELA64% met or exceeded
Exceeded 26%Met 38%Nearly Met 22%Not Met 14%
Math45% met or exceeded
Exceeded 28%Met 17%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 28%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 10th percentile of middle schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California middle schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −12 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 13th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.13th pctile · −12 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −19 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 6th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.6th pctile · −19 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard ahead of the same group statewide.

At Tetzlaff (Martin B.) Middle in Cerritos, 55.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 54.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Tetzlaff (Martin B.) Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (34.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (55.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 44.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 293 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 55% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 55%, district —, state 40%55%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 45%, district 48%, state 32%45% · −10 vs school
MaleMale: this school 53%, district 58%, state 42%53% · −2 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 57%, district 60%, state 44%57% · +2 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 43%, district 43%, state 32%43% · −12 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 76%, district 85%, state 72%76% · +22 vs school
FilipinoFilipino: this school 72%, district 76%, state 65%72% · +17 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 35%, district 42%, state 26%35% · −20 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 46%, district 58%, state 56%46% · −9 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 67%, district 60%, state 56%67% · +12 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 13%, district 25%, state 15%13% · −42 vs school

6 of 17 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only394 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 394 students.−14 pts · −14 vs typical
Low-income students277 studentsLow-income students, reading: −15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 277 students.−15 pts · −12 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students214 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −19 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 214 students.−19 pts · −17 vs typical
Asian86 studentsAsian, reading: 0 scale-score points versus expectation, against +6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 86 students.0 pts · −6 vs typical
Filipino80 studentsFilipino, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against +8 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 80 students.−3 pts · −11 vs typical
Math
English Only397 studentsEnglish Only, math: −20 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 397 students.−20 pts · −17 vs typical
Low-income students280 studentsLow-income students, math: −22 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 280 students.−22 pts · −17 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students214 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −28 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 214 students.−28 pts · −22 vs typical
Asian86 studentsAsian, math: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against +17 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 86 students.+6 pts · −11 vs typical
Filipino80 studentsFilipino, math: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 80 students.−7 pts · −14 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 23
Teaching staff25 teachers
Avg. experience15.6 years
Fully credentialed77%
First-year teachers8%
PrincipalJosie Summers
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Teacher salary schedule$65,755 – $127,886
Principal salary$160,286 – $190,870
Superintendent salary$310,992

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $24,171 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $24,171, CA average $14,491$24,171 · spent at this school
District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,766 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 59%Instruction support 13%Student services 11%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 9%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,553 per pupil
2019$12,110 per pupil
2018$12,189 per pupil
2017$11,434 per pupil
2016$10,952 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

More than half of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 56% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino42.4% · district 45.7% · CA 56.1%
White7.2% · district 4.4% · CA 19.9%
Asian16.6% · district 23.7% · CA 10.2%
Black10.3% · district 6.6% · CA 4.8%
Other23.4% · district 19.5% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch53.5% · CA 64%
Median income$135K · CA $85K
Median home value$932K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+58% · CA 35%
ZIP population48,108
Median age48 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Whitney (Gretchen) HighScope 97direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Whitney (Gretchen) High, which sent 76 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 20 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Whitney (Gretchen) High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 87% of Whitney (Gretchen) High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

76 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 20 AP subjects taught → full record on Whitney (Gretchen) High's page
Source: UC & College Board

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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A closer look at the evidence

Tetzlaff (Martin B.) Middle: reading the evidence

Tetzlaff (Martin B.) is a middle school in Cerritos. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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