Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Twenty-Eighth Street posts 24% meeting the standard and 8.6% 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 | 42 | 9% | 24% | +5.5 | 26.3% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 49th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “24% proficient” and call it done. Twenty-Eighth Street deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 23rd to the 49th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1300 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 24% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 10% | 21% | 11% | 23% | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 26% | 17% | 25% | 23% | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 23% | 22% | 19% | 31% | 22% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 26% | 29% | 18% | 27% | 27% |
| Grade 4 | 22% | 13% | 21% | 26% | 31% |
| Grade 5 | 19% | 19% | 14% | 21% | 26% |
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 7.3pp across grades; the floor rises 12.4pp. 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 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 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 Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 20.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 20.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (27.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (19.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 18.4 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 218 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 13.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (43.6% vs 23.2%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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
$3,743 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 11% 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 | 0% | 10% | 35% | 56% | 10% | −34 |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 13% | 14% | 21% | 52% | 27% | −18 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 7% | 15% | 24% | 54% | 22% | −26 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63 | 6% | 21% | 25% | 48% | 27% | −19 |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 12% | 19% | 21% | 49% | 31% | −11 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 13% | 12% | 24% | 50% | 26% | −10 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 82 | 2% | 9% | 59% | 30% |
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 | 218 | 20.6% | −20 | −18 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 213 | 19.7% | −21 | −19 |
| English Learners | 72 | 1.4% | −6 | −9 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary ← | — | 42 | 8.6% | 23.7% | +5.5 | 0.1% |
| Hoover Street Elementary | 3 mi | 62 | 42.7% | 68.5% | +12.7 | 0.3% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 2.7 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Vernon City Elementary | 2 mi | 59 | 37.0% | 59.4% | −31.9 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 32 | 23 | #4231 | 8.1% | 21.1% | 20.5% | 0.0% | +3.1pp |
| 2022 | 26 | 22 | #4486 | 5.0% | 20.2% | 42.6% | 0.0% | -4.5pp |
| 2023 | 31 | 30 | #4019 | 5.3% | 17.8% | 36.6% | 0.0% | +1.6pp |
| 2024 | 35 | 30 | #3996 | 6.8% | 25.1% | 25.9% | 0.1% | +1.5pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 49 | #2949 | 8.6% | 23.7% | 26.3% | 0.1% | +5.5pp |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 18 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 18.3% | 31.3% | +13.0pp |
| Male | 22.8% | 22.8% | +0.0pp |
| Black/African American | 64.0% | 26.7% | -37.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 19.0% | 26.8% | +7.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.7% | 32.4% | +4.7pp |
| English Learners | 18.2% | 23.3% | +5.1pp |
| Homeless | 83.3% | 46.3% | -37.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.7% | 26.6% | +5.9pp |
| All Students | 20.6% | 26.9% | +6.3pp |
| Military-Connected | — | 6.7% | — |
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