Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 16% | 41% | +8.3 | 15.5% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 59th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “41% proficient” and call it done. Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts's low-income kids hit 55.3% 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 23rd to the 59th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1900 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 41% of students meet the standard today, above the 34% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 36% | 37% | 45% | 33% | 41% |
| Grade 4 | 41% | 43% | 34% | 35% | 43% |
| Grade 5 | 33% | 35% | 51% | 44% | 57% |
| Grade 6 | 45% | 30% | 61% | 51% | 52% |
| Grade 7 | 58% | 40% | 51% | 64% | 68% |
| Grade 8 | 59% | 36% | 49% | 54% | 64% |
| Grade 11 | 65% | 63% | 73% | 70% | 71% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 35% | 38% | 42% | 52% | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 41% | 43% | 39% | 39% | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 15% | 28% | 39% | 29% | 36% |
| Grade 6 | 46% | 21% | 43% | 33% | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 38% | 19% | 28% | 46% | 56% |
| Grade 8 | 51% | 14% | 19% | 26% | 42% |
| Grade 11 | 35% | 35% | 32% | 20% | 19% |
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 15.3pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts's most underrated number
55.3% 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 what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- 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 Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts in Los Angeles, 55.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts outperforms its district average for low-income students by 14.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (36.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (54.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 56.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 436 students tested.
6 of 12 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 14.5pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 4–6 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 7–8 students (17.4% vs 10.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$1,638 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 842 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 30% 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 | 63 | 19% | 22% | 17% | 41% | 41% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 19% | 24% | 19% | 39% | 43% | −2 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 19% | 38% | 20% | 23% | 57% | +9 |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 16% | 36% | 23% | 25% | 52% | +5 |
| Grade 7 | 77 | 26% | 42% | 19% | 13% | 68% | +20 |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 22% | 42% | 24% | 12% | 64% | +18 |
| Grade 11 | 59 | 34% | 37% | 15% | 14% | 71% | +24 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63 | 17% | 17% | 24% | 41% | 35% | −11 |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 6% | 27% | 43% | 24% | 33% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 16% | 20% | 38% | 26% | 36% | +1 |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 11% | 15% | 38% | 36% | 26% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 77 | 26% | 30% | 23% | 21% | 56% | +22 |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 19% | 23% | 42% | 15% | 42% | +10 |
| Grade 11 | 59 | 7% | 12% | 29% | 53% | 19% | −5 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 207 | 7% | 23% | 62% | 8% |
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 | 436 | 55.3% | +14 | +17 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 409 | 54.8% | +14 | +16 |
| Students with Disabilities | 17 | 0.0% | −16 | −17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts ← | — | 46 | 15.9% | 40.8% | +8.3 | 0.1% |
| Hoover Street Elementary | 2.2 mi | 62 | 42.7% | 68.5% | +12.7 | 0.3% |
| Wilshire Park Elementary | 3.1 mi | 61 | 26.4% | 50.0% | −0.4 | 0.1% |
| Vermont Avenue Elementary | 0.7 mi | 58 | 23.9% | 51.5% | −7.8 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 32 | 23 | #4228 | 12.2% | 33.6% | 14.0% | 0.3% | -11.2pp |
| 2022 | 35 | 47 | #3058 | 10.8% | 37.3% | 28.6% | 0.3% | -6.4pp |
| 2023 | 43 | 58 | #2383 | 17.3% | 42.0% | 23.7% | 0.1% | +1.5pp |
| 2024 | 42 | 51 | #2837 | 14.3% | 38.8% | 20.1% | 0.1% | -6.4pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 59 | #2333 | 15.9% | 40.8% | 15.5% | 0.1% | +8.3pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 15.4% | 15.5% | +0.1pp |
| Male | 12.6% | 15.1% | +2.5pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Black/African American | 17.2% | 25.5% | +8.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.7% | 15.5% | +1.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 12.2% | 19.2% | +7.0pp |
| English Learners | 8.2% | 8.8% | +0.6pp |
| Homeless | 16.7% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.9% | 16.1% | +1.2pp |
| All Students | 14.0% | 15.3% | +1.3pp |
| Filipino | — | 17.6% | — |
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