UCLA Community K-12: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
UCLA Community K-12 posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (0.3% vs 1.6%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 30 | 5% | 17% | -7.8 | 25.4% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
UCLA Community K-12 scores 30 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 17th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “17% proficient” and call it done. UCLA Community K-12 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.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 39th to the 17th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 17% meet the standard today, versus 30% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 25% | 26% | 17% | 21% | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 37% | 18% | 34% | 27% | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 38% | 24% | 18% | 25% | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 29% | 33% | 32% | 37% | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 39% | 23% | 31% | 25% | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 34% | 27% | 27% | 26% | 30% |
| Grade 11 | 60% | 35% | 62% | 50% | 58% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27% | 28% | 13% | 10% | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 30% | 12% | 16% | 17% | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 21% | 8% | 9% | 12% | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 25% | 13% | 21% | 14% | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 39% | 13% | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 25% | 13% | 7% | 12% | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 29% | 11% | 21% | 24% | 20% |
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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 UCLA Community K-12 in Los Angeles, 33.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. UCLA Community K-12 trails its district average for low-income students by 7.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (16.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (31.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 29.7 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 411 students tested.
7 of 15 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 5.4pp 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 7–8 students (32.7% vs 19.8%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
UCLA Community K-12 serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
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.
$3,198 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 887 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), 23% 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 72
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 | 50 | 6% | 16% | 20% | 58% | 22% | −21 |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 10% | 10% | 24% | 55% | 21% | −24 |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 6% | 12% | 26% | 56% | 18% | −30 |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 14% | 24% | 20% | 43% | 37% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 3% | 30% | 33% | 33% | 33% | −14 |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 8% | 21% | 30% | 41% | 30% | −17 |
| Grade 11 | 98 | 23% | 35% | 20% | 21% | 58% | +11 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 51 | 2% | 20% | 27% | 51% | 22% | −24 |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 2% | 9% | 37% | 53% | 11% | −31 |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 2% | 8% | 18% | 72% | 10% | −25 |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 2% | 13% | 30% | 55% | 15% | −20 |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 0% | 17% | 30% | 52% | 17% | −17 |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 6% | 8% | 18% | 68% | 15% | −18 |
| Grade 11 | 98 | 7% | 13% | 26% | 54% | 20% | −3 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 212 | 4% | 19% | 63% | 14% |
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 | 411 | 33.8% | −7 | −4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 363 | 31.1% | −10 | −8 |
| English Learners | 112 | 1.8% | −5 | −9 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA Community K-12 ← | — | 30 | 4.7% | 17.1% | −7.8 | 0.3% |
| Third Street Elementary | 2.2 mi | 90 | 68.3% | 88.9% | +1.1 | 0.1% |
| Charles H. Kim Elementary | 0.9 mi | 63 | 40.2% | 61.1% | +8.7 | 0.1% |
| Dr. Sammy Lee Medical and Health Science Magnet El | 1.1 mi | 62 | 34.4% | 60.8% | −9.0 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 38 | 39 | #3381 | 8.8% | 29.6% | 16.1% | 0.3% | +3.3pp |
| 2022 | 26 | 21 | #4521 | 7.8% | 19.6% | 32.5% | 0.6% | -11.2pp |
| 2023 | 31 | 30 | #4023 | 6.8% | 18.0% | 37.6% | 0.2% | -1.6pp |
| 2024 | 29 | 16 | #4827 | 6.5% | 18.6% | 25.1% | 0.6% | +3.2pp |
| 2025 | 30 | 17 | #4750 | 4.7% | 17.1% | 25.4% | 0.3% | -7.8pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 15.0% | 26.3% | +11.3pp |
| Male | 17.5% | 25.9% | +8.4pp |
| Asian | 17.7% | 28.3% | +10.6pp |
| Black/African American | 21.7% | 35.0% | +13.3pp |
| White | 9.4% | 16.7% | +7.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15.8% | 26.0% | +10.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 18.2% | 30.1% | +11.9pp |
| English Learners | 17.1% | 33.7% | +16.6pp |
| Homeless | 30.8% | 48.8% | +18.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 16.2% | 26.2% | +10.0pp |
| All Students | 16.2% | 26.1% | +9.9pp |
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