Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8 posts 22% meeting the standard and 7.0% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 33 | 7% | 22% | -0.6 | 25.1% | 6.2% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8 scores 33 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 25th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “22% proficient” and call it done. Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8 deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 5th to the 25th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 900 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 22% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 21% | 26% | 20% | 23% | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 21% | 28% | 35% | 18% | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 24% | 25% | 27% | 31% | 27% |
| Grade 6 | 30% | 28% | 35% | 38% | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 19% | 22% | 29% | 36% | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 25% | 21% | 9% | 31% | 32% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 24% | 25% | 22% | 26% | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 21% | 21% | 27% | 18% | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 12% | 9% | 19% | 22% | 20% |
| Grade 6 | 16% | 20% | 14% | 37% | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 13% | 6% | 28% | 19% | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 16% | 6% | 10% | 33% | 22% |
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 2.3pp across grades; the floor rises 2.8pp. 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- 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 Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8 in Sacramento, 23.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8 trails its district average for low-income students by 5.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (18.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (27.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 25.1 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 429 students tested.
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 2.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
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
$1,281 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 883 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 22% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 70
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 29
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 100 | 8% | 16% | 23% | 53% | 24% | −19 |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 8% | 11% | 24% | 58% | 19% | −26 |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 10% | 16% | 23% | 51% | 27% | −21 |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 7% | 21% | 25% | 46% | 29% | −18 |
| Grade 7 | 81 | 9% | 30% | 30% | 32% | 38% | −9 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 3% | 29% | 20% | 47% | 32% | −14 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 102 | 4% | 20% | 25% | 51% | 24% | −22 |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 4% | 17% | 30% | 49% | 21% | −20 |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 8% | 11% | 34% | 46% | 20% | −16 |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 8% | 8% | 19% | 65% | 16% | −19 |
| Grade 7 | 84 | 11% | 24% | 19% | 46% | 35% | +1 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 8% | 14% | 37% | 41% | 22% | −10 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 157 | 7% | 15% | 62% | 17% |
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 | 429 | 23.3% | −6 | −15 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 256 | 27.3% | −7 | −12 |
| English Learners | 186 | 2.7% | −3 | −8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Edison Language Institute K-8 ← | — | 33 | 7.0% | 22.3% | −0.6 | 6.2% |
| Phoebe A. Hearst Elementary | 3 mi | 86 | 58.3% | 80.9% | −0.3 | 0.6% |
| Caleb Greenwood Elementary | 2.1 mi | 69 | 48.2% | 71.5% | +1.8 | 0.8% |
| James R. Cowan Fundamental Elementary | 2.8 mi | 55 | 26.2% | 49.0% | +20.7 | 4.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 23 | 5 | #5216 | 6.7% | 20.5% | 20.7% | 9.4% | -4.3pp |
| 2022 | 18 | 6 | #5378 | 6.5% | 22.3% | 55.3% | 3.5% | -8.9pp |
| 2023 | 28 | 20 | #4566 | 6.6% | 24.9% | 34.9% | 4.3% | +1.7pp |
| 2024 | 26 | 11 | #5127 | 8.0% | 23.4% | 28.0% | 8.3% | +2.0pp |
| 2025 | 33 | 25 | #4282 | 7.0% | 22.3% | 25.1% | 6.2% | -0.6pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 15 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 20.0% | 23.6% | +3.6pp |
| Male | 21.5% | 26.9% | +5.4pp |
| Asian | 14.0% | 18.9% | +4.9pp |
| Black/African American | 28.3% | 58.3% | +30.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 18.6% | 23.9% | +5.3pp |
| Two or More Races | 27.6% | 29.7% | +2.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 23.6% | 33.8% | +10.2pp |
| English Learners | 13.6% | 22.3% | +8.7pp |
| Homeless | 44.6% | 56.9% | +12.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.9% | 28.3% | +5.4pp |
| All Students | 20.8% | 25.5% | +4.7pp |
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