Torrey Hills: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Torrey Hills pairs 74% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Torrey Hills scores 74 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 94th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “74% proficient” and call it done. Torrey Hills deserves a closer read. It sits at the 94th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: 49.0% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.3%.
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 5.4pp across grades; the floor rises 14.4pp. 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
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Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
2 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 64 | 52% | 19% | 23% | 6% | 70% | +27 |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 36% | 27% | 27% | 11% | 63% | +18 |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 57% | 28% | 11% | 4% | 85% | +37 |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 68% | 14% | 12% | 7% | 81% | +35 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 65 | 38% | 34% | 25% | 3% | 72% | +27 |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 45% | 29% | 20% | 7% | 73% | +32 |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 67% | 15% | 15% | 3% | 82% | +47 |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 65% | 18% | 8% | 8% | 83% | +48 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 72 | 40% | 33% | 26% | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian | 109 | 81.7% | −6 | +7 |
| White | 103 | 72.8% | −7 | +11 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torrey Hills ← | — | 74 | 49.0% | 74.2% | +12.0 | 0.3% |
| Carmel Del Mar Elementary | 1.9 mi | 91 | 66.8% | 87.5% | +1.6 | 0.4% |
| Sage Canyon | 1.4 mi | 91 | 66.0% | 85.3% | +11.3 | 0.7% |
| Ocean Air | 1.1 mi | 89 | 67.5% | 89.2% | −6.5 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |