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46%Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced
Public middle school
This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
57% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 46% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.
SchoolScope archetype
This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
How archetypes are assigned →Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced
Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced
Total enrollment
Students absent 10% or more of school days
Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.
View school performance →Explore teaching, coursework and student-group results. A schoolwide average cannot predict an individual experience.
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Compare nearby schools →What do the results tell us?
2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.
Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →
Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.
| Year | Math | English |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 58% | 64% |
| 2022 | 49% | 67% |
| 2023 | 50% | 67% |
| 2024 | 51% | 56% |
| 2025 | 46% | 57% |
Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.
Achievement-level percentages are not percentiles. “Developing” here is a test achievement level, separate from the SchoolScope performance band with the same name.
Most rating sites would stop at “50% proficient” and call it done. Twin Peaks deserves a closer read. It sits at the 64th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: 35.9% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
1022 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 346 tracked
Twin Peaks Middle scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 64th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 50% meet the standard today, versus 61% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 65% | 65% | 64% | 53% | 58% |
| Grade 7 | 62% | 70% | 69% | 59% | 55% |
| Grade 8 | 63% | 70% | 69% | 60% | 56% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 49% | 46% | 47% | 47% | 45% |
| Grade 7 | 61% | 48% | 49% | 46% | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 67% | 52% | 54% | 56% | 46% |
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42 | 23% | 50% | Weak · p30 | 11.2% | 2.2% |
| CA average · Middle School | 39 | 17% | 40% | Average · p50 | 18.1% | 3.6% |
Context — never part of the Scope Score
California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do. The two measures land in the same neighbourhood here — ours puts this school around the 30th percentile of California middle schools, the state's around the 25th in reading and math together. Two different methods agreeing is the most you can ask of one year of test data.
— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.
Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.
Who shares in the school’s results?
At Twin Peaks Middle in Poway, 33.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 50.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Twin Peaks Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 17.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (23.9% Math proficient); White students (61.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.2 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 203 students tested.
5 of 17 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 3.4pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +1.2pp.
California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.
— 4 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.
What is it like to be a student here?
Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.
Average teacher experience in the published staffing record. It does not measure individual teacher effectiveness.
The share of students absent for at least 10% of their enrolled school days. Attendance reflects both school and out-of-school circumstances.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What sits behind the school experience?
Context — never part of the Scope Score
$262 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 →
Context — never part of the Scope Score
On the state's science test (CAST), 48% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
What is the school’s approach?
School-stated approach · questions for your visit
A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.
Read the school’s own website ↗What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?
Ask a current family: “When your child needs help, how does the school respond?”
What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?
Ask an educator: “How do you adapt a typical day for children with different needs?”
What are the alternatives?
Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.
2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.
No nearby schools in this category are listed. The school being viewed stays visible for reference.
| School | Type | Performance band | Advanced | Proficient or Advanced | Distance | Select |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Peaks Middle | Public | Solid | 23% | 50% | School being viewed | |
| Meadowbrook Middle | Public | Solid | 26% | 54% | 2.4 mi |
Nearby public schools across grade levels, plus private options within 10 miles.
Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.
Which schools could serve my child?
School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with Poway Unified.
District information →School website →The road from this school ends at Poway High, which sent 62 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 21 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Poway High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 81% of Poway High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.
Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.
What should I do next?
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
Use the published evidence to prepare questions, then verify fit and access with the school.
Inspect the full record
Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.
On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.
The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 30 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
| What we weigh | Here | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 23.3% | 17.2% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 49.9% | 40.0% | 23% |
| Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) | Weak | average | 20% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 11.2% | 18.1% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.2% | 3.6% | 5% |
| EL proficiency (ELPAC) | 35.9% | 18.0% | 5% |
Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built
Twin Peaks posts 50% meeting the standard against 40% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.
This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Explore the underlying data →Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
Twin Peaks Middle is ranked #783 statewide · #7 of 7 in Poway Unified.
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 23.3% | 17.2% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 49.9% | 40.0% | 23% |
| Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) | Weak | average | 20% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 11.2% | 18.1% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.2% | 3.6% | 5% |
| EL proficiency (ELPAC) | 35.9% | 18.0% | 5% |
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 351 | 27% | 32% | 23% | 19% | 58% | +12 |
| Grade 7 | 327 | 20% | 35% | 24% | 20% | 55% | +8 |
| Grade 8 | 344 | 19% | 36% | 23% | 21% | 56% | +10 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 357 | 28% | 17% | 31% | 24% | 45% | +11 |
| Grade 7 | 338 | 20% | 18% | 32% | 30% | 38% | +5 |
| Grade 8 | 347 | 25% | 21% | 28% | 26% | 46% | +14 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 343 | 21% | 27% | 45% | 7% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 203 | 33.5% | −17 | −5 |
| White | 550 | 61.1% | −11 | −1 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 259 | 42.5% | −14 | +4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Peaks Middle ← | — | 42 | 23.3% | 49.9% | −1.1pp | +30 pts | 2.2% |
| Meadowbrook Middle | 2.4 mi | 43 | 25.7% | 53.5% | −3.7pp | — | 2.4% |
| California average | — | 39 | 17.2% | 40.0% | +1.5pp | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 56 | 83 | #333 | 29.2% | 61.2% | 7.2% | 2.5% | +7.8pp |
| 2022 | 57 | 85 | #314 | 27.6% | 58.6% | 16.2% | 2.7% | +5.8pp |
| 2023 | 55 | 85 | #319 | 26.3% | 58.7% | 14.2% | 3.3% | +6.2pp |
| 2024 | 47 | 74 | #566 | 22.0% | 53.3% | 13.8% | 2.1% | +8.1pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 64 | #783 | 23.3% | 49.9% | 11.2% | 2.2% | -1.1pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 7.6% | 11.5% | +3.9pp |
| Male | 6.7% | 10.8% | +4.1pp |
| Asian | 4.0% | 9.4% | +5.4pp |
| Black/African American | 11.8% | 16.7% | +4.9pp |
| Filipino | 3.4% | 10.3% | +6.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.2% | 18.2% | +9.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 5.4% | 7.5% | +2.1pp |
| White | 7.0% | 8.9% | +1.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 15.6% | 17.7% | +2.1pp |
| English Learners | 12.2% | 22.4% | +10.2pp |
| Homeless | 28.6% | 48.3% | +19.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.2% | 22.1% | +7.9pp |
| All Students | 7.1% | 11.1% | +4.0pp |
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −9 | 938 | Moderate | −6 | 945 | Moderate |
| English Only | −10 | 743 | not categorised | −8 | 750 | not categorised |
| White | −9 | 499 | Moderate | −7 | 502 | Moderate |
| Hispanic or Latino | −14 | 240 | Moderate | −10 | 242 | Moderate |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −14 | 185 | Moderate | −11 | 186 | Moderate |
| Students with Disabilities | −17 | 162 | Moderate | −5 | 163 | Average |
| English Learner | −12 | 123 | Moderate | −8 | 123 | Moderate |
| Two or More Races | −12 | 112 | Moderate | −12 | 114 | Moderate |
| Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only | −11 | 102 | not categorised | −10 | 102 | not categorised |
| Asian | −7 | 51 | Moderate | +17 | 51 | Accelerated |
| Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only) | −8 | 28 | Moderate | −25 | 28 | Minimal |
| Filipino | −10 | 25 | Moderate | −6 | 25 | Moderate |
| Homeless Youth | −15 | 22 | Moderate | −5 | 22 | Average |
| English Learners Only | −19 | 21 | not categorised | +8 | 21 | not categorised |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-08
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