The New School of San Francisco: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
The New School of San Francisco pairs 61% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 68 | 37% | 61% | +27.3 | 20.1% | 2.9% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
The New School of San Francisco scores 68 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 90th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🚀 Growth Engine — Ask how the school tracks each kid's growth year to year, and what happens when a kid stalls instead of gaining.
Most rating sites would stop at “61% proficient” and call it done. The New School of San Francisco deserves a closer read. The school sits in San Francisco, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +27.3pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
As a charter, The New School of San Francisco enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 90th-percentile line every tested year since 2022.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 85% | 68% | 57% | 60% | 43% |
| Grade 4 | 75% | 80% | 67% | 77% | 75% |
| Grade 5 | — | 82% | 78% | 65% | 77% |
| Grade 6 | — | 70% | 67% | 75% | 70% |
| Grade 7 | — | 65% | 76% | 77% | 77% |
| Grade 8 | — | — | 69% | 75% | 73% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 79% | 54% | 64% | 50% | 40% |
| Grade 4 | 61% | 67% | 69% | 80% | 69% |
| Grade 5 | — | 70% | 67% | 63% | 62% |
| Grade 6 | — | 39% | 47% | 60% | 63% |
| Grade 7 | — | 35% | 69% | 68% | 68% |
| Grade 8 | — | — | 52% | 78% | 66% |
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 27.3pp across grades; the floor rises 33.4pp. 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.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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 The New School of San Francisco in San Francisco, 45.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. The New School of San Francisco outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (48.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 23.5 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 105 students tested.
5 of 14 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
The people teaching here
What gets spent here
$3,008 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
56% of district spending reaches instruction — CA average is 56%.
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), 68% 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 3 | 46 | 30% | 13% | 15% | 41% | 43% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 43% | 31% | 12% | 14% | 75% | +30 |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 58% | 19% | 12% | 12% | 77% | +29 |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 48% | 22% | 14% | 16% | 70% | +23 |
| Grade 7 | 60 | 45% | 32% | 7% | 17% | 77% | +29 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 34% | 39% | 15% | 12% | 73% | +27 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 47 | 11% | 30% | 11% | 49% | 40% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 33% | 35% | 18% | 14% | 69% | +27 |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 48% | 13% | 19% | 19% | 62% | +26 |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 48% | 16% | 17% | 19% | 63% | +28 |
| Grade 7 | 60 | 58% | 10% | 17% | 15% | 68% | +34 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 49% | 17% | 17% | 17% | 66% | +34 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 112 | 37% | 31% | 25% | 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 | 105 | 45.7% | +0 | +7 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 114 | 48.2% | +0 | +9 |
| White | 105 | 88.6% | +0 | +27 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New School of San Francisco ← | — | 68 | 37.2% | 60.9% | +27.3 | 2.9% |
| Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila | 2.7 mi | 88 | 59.2% | 81.0% | +25.6 | 0.1% |
| Lilienthal (Claire) Elementary | 1.6 mi | 73 | 51.1% | 74.1% | +11.0 | 0.4% |
| Grattan Elementary | 3.2 mi | 70 | 42.4% | 71.8% | +11.5 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 68 | 93 | #399 | 43.0% | 70.2% | 17.7% | 1.0% | +14.9pp |
| 2023 | 67 | 91 | #537 | 36.5% | 67.0% | 25.0% | 0.7% | +11.8pp |
| 2024 | 60 | 82 | #1005 | 39.1% | 66.0% | 18.7% | 1.2% | +9.1pp |
| 2025 | 68 | 90 | #587 | 37.2% | 60.9% | 20.1% | 2.9% | +27.3pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 1.0% | 22.8% | +21.8pp |
| Male | 2.9% | 18.1% | +15.2pp |
| Asian | 2.9% | 10.3% | +7.4pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | 48.5% | +48.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 0.0% | 29.2% | +29.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 0.0% | 32.5% | +32.5pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | 30.8% | +30.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 3.2% | 34.1% | +30.9pp |
| All Students | 2.1% | 20.3% | +18.2pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 9.1% | — |
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