University Preparatory: High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.
University Preparatory posts 56.7% exceeding the standard — versus 19.8% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.
University Preparatory scores 90 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 99th percentile of 1,647 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures graduation, test performance, college readiness, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
High Ceiling — Ask what happens for a kid who shows up behind — a high ceiling for the top can sit right next to thin support at the bottom, and the score alone won't show you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “87% proficient” and call it done. University Preparatory deserves a closer read. Two-thirds of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
University Preparatory's low-income kids hit 91.4% 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.
- University of California46 (28%)
- California State University31 (19%)
- California community college54 (33%)
- In-state private6 (4%)
- Out-of-state, 4-year7 (4%)
- Not enrolled20 (12%)
CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate, class of 2023 · % = count ÷ completers, our arithmetic
See the full roll and the UC register →| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 90 | 57% | 87% | 100.0% | 79.1% | 4.8% | 0.7% |
| CA average · High School | 54 | 20% | 43% | 92.5% | 43.0% | 23.1% | 3.3% |
The seven-year arc
Has held the 99th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 87% of students meet the standard today, above the 76% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 83% | 80% | 63% | 89% | 90% |
| Grade 8 | 79% | 81% | 73% | 67% | 87% |
| Grade 11 | 94% | 88% | 94% | 96% | 97% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 61% | 54% | 41% | 63% | 66% |
| Grade 8 | 66% | 54% | 60% | 49% | 69% |
| Grade 11 | 59% | 61% | 60% | 60% | 77% |
Where its students land
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 87 are proficient by 11th grade → 100 graduate → 79 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
University Preparatory's most underrated number
91.4% 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 7 things our score weighs
California's own answer to the same question
California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits a little above the middle of California high schools in reading, and the 54th in math. We show it; we don't score it.
— 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 high school lands at −3 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −13 and +5 — 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.
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 University Preparatory in Victorville, 91.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.3% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. University Preparatory outperforms its district average for low-income students by 49.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (69.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (90.8% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 396 students tested.
7 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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 high 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.
● share of AP enrollment vs share of total enrollment, this school only · not part of the Scope Score
Data source: U.S. Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2020-21 (biennial; newest published)
Showing up, and staying in class
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.
Where graduates go
Where they went after graduation
Of University Preparatory's class of 2023, 88% enrolled in college somewhere within a year — a CSU, a community college, a UC, or out of state.
Class of 2023: 164 completers, 88% enrolled somewhere within a year
Percentages are computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers) from CDE-reported counts, not a CDE-native rate.
Data source: California Department of Education, 2023 cohort — the newest published; National Student Clearinghouse match.
In fall 2025, 44 of University Preparatory's 174 graduates enrolled in the University of California system — Riverside the most common landing, with 20 enrollees.
campuses never sum to the universitywide figure — students apply to several
Peak: 52 enrolled, 2022
UC publishes this trend back to 1994 — no other destination has a comparable multi-year record
UC is one road of many — the full destination mix for the class of 2023 is below. And who applied isn't who the school taught: the ratio between the two reflects the self-selected pool of students who chose to apply, not what happened in the classroom. By the state's 2023 count, 88% of this class's predecessors enrolled in college somewhere within a year. More of the class of 2023 enrolled at community colleges (54) than at UC (46).
Data source: University of California Office of the President (UC Information Center), fall 2025 admissions cycle · college-going rate: California Department of Education, 2023 cohort.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
University Preparatory's teachers are authorized to teach 17 of the 40 AP subjects the College Board offers — above the 14-subject median among California schools that offer AP at all — including Calculus BC, Calculus AB, and Physics 1.
Data source: College Board AP Course Audit, 2025 - 2026 audit year (authorization, not enrollment) · IB World Schools directory, name-matched · structural depth: 2020-21 federal snapshot, table 09
What gets spent here
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
On the state's science test (CAST), 77% 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.
Frequently asked questions
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Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 57
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 37
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 24
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 190 | 41% | 49% | 9% | 1% | 90% | +42 |
| Grade 8 | 196 | 38% | 49% | 13% | 0% | 87% | +41 |
| Grade 11 | 179 | 75% | 21% | 3% | 1% | 97% | +48 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 190 | 35% | 32% | 27% | 6% | 66% | +33 |
| Grade 8 | 196 | 40% | 29% | 23% | 8% | 69% | +37 |
| Grade 11 | 179 | 38% | 39% | 20% | 3% | 77% | +53 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 377 | 23% | 54% | 23% | 0% |
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 | 396 | 91.4% | +49 | +53 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 402 | 90.8% | +47 | +52 |
| White | 56 | 96.4% | +44 | +35 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University Preparatory ← | — | 90 | 56.7% | 86.6% | 0.7% |
| Cobalt Institute of Math and Science | 1.4 mi | 69 | 32.7% | 61.9% | 1.9% |
| Silverado High | 1 mi | 45 | 10.4% | 31.3% | 3.5% |
| California average | — | 54 | 19.8% | 43.2% | 3.3% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 80 | 95 | #80 | 39.6% | 76.3% | 3.2% | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 80 | 95 | #76 | 39.1% | 74.7% | 11.6% | 1.9% |
| 2023 | 81 | 95 | #74 | 36.6% | 76.7% | 5.9% | 1.2% |
| 2024 | 82 | 97 | #57 | 41.9% | 77.8% | 4.4% | 1.3% |
| 2025 | 90 | 99 | #22 | 56.7% | 86.6% | 4.8% | 0.7% |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 0.9% | 1.8% | +0.9pp |
| Male | 1.5% | 3.3% | +1.8pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 4.8% | +4.8pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Filipino | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 1.6% | 2.2% | +0.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 0.0% | 5.7% | +5.7pp |
| White | 0.8% | 4.2% | +3.4pp |
| English Learners | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 1.1% | 2.6% | +1.5pp |
| All Students | 1.2% | 2.5% | +1.3pp |
| Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled | GPA (applied) | GPA (admitted) | GPA (enrolled) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | 100 | 44 | 3.84 | 3.89 | 4.00 |
| 2024 | 129 | 98 | 41 | 3.88 | 3.98 | 4.10 |
| 2023 | 125 | 82 | 47 | 3.86 | 4.04 | 4.10 |
| 2022 | 144 | 107 | 52 | 3.94 | 4.07 | 4.13 |
| 2021 | 132 | 97 | 48 | 3.87 | 3.96 | 4.08 |
| 2020 | 141 | 87 | 47 | 3.75 | 3.93 | 4.06 |
| 2019 | 122 | 70 | 35 | 3.76 | 3.99 | 4.10 |
| 2018 | 127 | 89 | 48 | 3.86 | 4.01 | 4.08 |
| 2017 | 109 | 81 | 49 | 3.76 | 3.89 | 3.96 |
| 2016 | 91 | 70 | 43 | 3.75 | 3.94 | 4.04 |
| 2015 | 92 | 68 | 49 | 3.76 | 3.94 | 3.96 |
| 2014 | 75 | 55 | 25 | 3.65 | 3.77 | 3.94 |
‹n = UC masks counts below n · a missing year means zero or masked — never assume zero · GPA cells blank for years with more than one contributing CEEB code (a summed GPA would be fabricated math) · GPAs live here and nowhere else on this page · Applied/Admitted/Enrolled reflect who applied, not what the school taught — no admit rate is computed or implied by this table. Series shown from 2014; full record to 1994 at the UC Infocenter.
| Campus | Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 2025 | 37 | 6 | 4 |
| Berkeley | 2024 | 45 | 6 | ‹3 |
| Berkeley | 2023 | 50 | 9 | 6 |
| Berkeley | 2022 | 62 | 20 | 10 |
| Berkeley | 2021 | 37 | 10 | 4 |
| Davis | 2025 | 15 | 3 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2024 | 24 | 12 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2023 | 17 | 10 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2022 | 30 | 13 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2021 | 24 | 10 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2025 | 92 | 19 | 3 |
| Irvine | 2024 | 101 | 30 | 10 |
| Irvine | 2023 | 90 | 18 | 4 |
| Irvine | 2022 | 117 | 30 | 4 |
| Irvine | 2021 | 100 | 31 | 16 |
| Los Angeles | 2025 | 83 | 7 | 4 |
| Los Angeles | 2024 | 102 | 8 | 7 |
| Los Angeles | 2023 | 81 | 10 | 5 |
| Los Angeles | 2022 | 111 | 12 | 6 |
| Los Angeles | 2021 | 91 | 6 | 5 |
| Merced | 2025 | 34 | 34 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2024 | 8 | 8 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2023 | 9 | 7 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2022 | 8 | 8 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2021 | 26 | 24 | ‹3 |
| Riverside | 2025 | 91 | 82 | 20 |
| Riverside | 2024 | 81 | 66 | 9 |
| Riverside | 2023 | 83 | 53 | 9 |
| Riverside | 2022 | 92 | 67 | 6 |
| Riverside | 2021 | 87 | 65 | 14 |
| San Diego | 2025 | 71 | 22 | 5 |
| San Diego | 2024 | 91 | 41 | 10 |
| San Diego | 2023 | 92 | 45 | 18 |
| San Diego | 2022 | 95 | 58 | 24 |
| San Diego | 2021 | 79 | 30 | 5 |
| Santa Barbara | 2025 | 41 | 9 | 3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2024 | 34 | 10 | ‹3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2023 | 33 | 10 | ‹3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2022 | 42 | 8 | ‹3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2021 | 36 | 6 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2025 | 19 | 16 | 5 |
| Santa Cruz | 2024 | 31 | 24 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2023 | 27 | 19 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2022 | 25 | 16 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2021 | 30 | 21 | 3 |
| Universitywide | 2025 | 125 | 100 | 44 |
| Universitywide | 2024 | 129 | 98 | 41 |
| Universitywide | 2023 | 125 | 82 | 47 |
| Universitywide | 2022 | 144 | 107 | 52 |
| Universitywide | 2021 | 132 | 97 | 48 |
Σ campuses ≠ universitywide — students apply to several campuses; the Universitywide row (muted) is its own independent count, never a sum of the rows above it.
| Subject | Taught by |
|---|---|
| Biology | this school |
| Calculus AB | this school |
| Calculus BC | this school |
| Chemistry | this school |
| English Language and Composition | this school |
| English Literature and Composition | this school |
| Environmental Science | this school |
| European History | this school |
| Macroeconomics | this school |
| Physics 1 | this school |
| Precalculus | this school |
| Psychology | this school |
| Spanish Language and Culture | this school |
| Spanish Literature and Culture | this school |
| Statistics | this school |
| U.S. Government and Politics | this school |
| United States History | this school |
Authorization ≠ a section running this year — the Ledger records what the school may teach, not seat counts.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| AP offered | offered |
| AP course count | 8 |
| AP enrollment | 151 |
| IB participation | not offered |
| Dual enrollment | not offered |
| Algebra I in grade 8 | not reported |
| Calculus sections | 1 |
| Physics sections | 3 |
| Chemistry sections | 6 |
| Total enrollment (CRDC) | 1,114 |
Shown, never scored — no entry to any composite. NULL/reserve codes render "not reported," never a fabricated zero. The equity block above this table (§4) is the per-subgroup view of this same collection.
| Destination | Completers | % (derived) |
|---|---|---|
| University of California | 46 | 28.1% |
| California State University | 31 | 18.9% |
| California community college | 54 | 32.9% |
| In-state private | 6 | 3.7% |
| Out-of-state, 4-year | 7 | 4.3% |
| Out-of-state, 2-year | 0 | 0.0% |
| Not enrolled | 20 | 12.2% |
164 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 88% · % column is computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers), not a CDE-native rate · a missing cell is CDE suppression, never a fabricated zero · source: CDE 12-mo CGR, 2023 cohort (the newest published), National Student Clearinghouse match — a different, older vintage than the fall 2025 UC admissions rows in tables 06-07 above.
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | +11 | 381 | Accelerated | +2 | 381 | Average |
| Hispanic or Latino | +8 | 268 | Accelerated | −1 | 268 | Average |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | +12 | 256 | Accelerated | +2 | 256 | Average |
| English Only | +11 | 245 | not categorised | +1 | 245 | not categorised |
| English Learner | +7 | 60 | Accelerated | +8 | 60 | Accelerated |
| Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only | +8 | 52 | not categorised | +5 | 52 | not categorised |
| White | +18 | 39 | Accelerated | +6 | 39 | Accelerated |
| Black or African American | +23 | 21 | Exceptional | −10 | 21 | Moderate |
| Asian | −4 | 21 | Average | +24 | 21 | Exceptional |
| Two or More Races | +9 | 16 | Accelerated | +18 | 16 | Accelerated |
| Filipino | +22 | 12 | Exceptional | +19 | 12 | Accelerated |
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. 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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