Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place: 64% of kids clear the bar — ahead of the state's 43%. But this year's 5th graders test below its 3rd graders.
Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place posts 64% meeting the standard, against 43% across the state. The number below is the one to ask about on a visit.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 58 | 37% | 64% | -18.3 | 14.5% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place scores 58 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 79th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “64% proficient” and call it done. Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place deserves a closer read. The school sits in Carson, where three in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place's low-income kids hit 57.8% 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 65th to the 79th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 700 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 64% of students meet the standard today, above the 57% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 57% | 58% | 63% | 67% | 70% |
| Grade 4 | 63% | 57% | 49% | 54% | 70% |
| Grade 5 | 64% | 67% | 67% | 60% | 56% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 62% | 55% | 63% | 67% | 72% |
| Grade 4 | 51% | 52% | 31% | 49% | 68% |
| Grade 5 | 43% | 47% | 45% | 40% | 49% |
The story this school is actually telling
of students met or exceeded the standard, versus 42.7% statewide.
proficiency runs 71% in this year's grade 3 against 52% in its grade 5. The state average rises by +4.5pp over the same span.
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 falls 14.3pp across grades; the floor slips 14.3pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. The school's 5th graders aren't posting a wider lead than its 3rd graders. One question worth asking on a tour: are the strongest students being pushed, or coasting? A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place's most underrated number
57.8% 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 the principal what changes between grade 3 and grade 5. Ask who teaches the older grades, and what the school does when a child starts falling behind.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place in Carson, 57.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place outperforms its district average for low-income students by 16.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (53.9% Math proficient); Hispanic students (52.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 11.8 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 116 students tested.
6 of 13 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 falls by 19.6pp 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 one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (22.9% vs 13.3%). 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
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.
$1,721 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), 40% 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 | 60 | 50% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 70% | +27 |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 41% | 29% | 18% | 13% | 70% | +25 |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 36% | 20% | 30% | 14% | 56% | +8 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 60 | 45% | 27% | 20% | 8% | 72% | +26 |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 27% | 41% | 27% | 5% | 68% | +26 |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 25% | 25% | 25% | 26% | 49% | +14 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 70 | 13% | 27% | 56% | 4% |
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 | 116 | 57.8% | +17 | +20 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 101 | 52.5% | +11 | +14 |
| Filipino | 57 | 80.7% | +6 | +9 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place ← | — | 58 | 37.2% | 64.0% | −18.3 | 0.1% |
| Van Deene Avenue Elementary | 1.7 mi | 61 | 31.7% | 56.7% | +10.0 | 0.2% |
| Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet | 2.4 mi | 58 | 35.2% | 63.5% | +1.3 | 0.1% |
| Carson Street Elementary | 1.3 mi | 58 | 28.7% | 55.0% | +2.0 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 49 | 65 | #1902 | 23.4% | 56.6% | 13.9% | 0.0% | -5.2pp |
| 2022 | 49 | 76 | #1400 | 24.5% | 55.9% | 28.9% | 0.0% | +0.6pp |
| 2023 | 53 | 77 | #1318 | 28.5% | 52.9% | 19.8% | 0.0% | -6.8pp |
| 2024 | 52 | 72 | #1602 | 26.1% | 56.0% | 12.6% | 0.1% | -17.0pp |
| 2025 | 58 | 79 | #1217 | 37.2% | 64.0% | 14.5% | 0.1% | -18.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 10.9% | 13.5% | +2.6pp |
| Male | 16.8% | 14.9% | -1.9pp |
| Black/African American | 7.1% | 16.7% | +9.6pp |
| White | 8.7% | 14.3% | +5.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 17.0% | 13.6% | -3.4pp |
| Pacific Islander | 25.0% | — | — |
| Two or More Races | 14.3% | 12.5% | -1.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 11.7% | 14.8% | +3.1pp |
| English Learners | 15.2% | 26.1% | +10.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 18.1% | 16.8% | -1.3pp |
| All Students | 14.0% | 14.2% | +0.2pp |
| Filipino | — | 13.6% | — |
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