Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet posts 62% meeting the standard, and 34.4% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 59 | 34% | 62% | +1.9 | 12.4% | 0.2% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet scores 59 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 81st percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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💪 Strong All-Around — Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.
Most rating sites would stop at “62% proficient” and call it done. Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet deserves a closer read. The school sits in North Hills, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet's low-income kids hit 58.5% 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
Has held the 81st-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 62% meet the standard today, versus 71% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 68% | 68% | 63% | 65% | 58% |
| Grade 4 | 71% | 68% | 59% | 54% | 70% |
| Grade 5 | 73% | 71% | 64% | 67% | 68% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 73% | 73% | 68% | 73% | 62% |
| Grade 4 | 71% | 67% | 63% | 59% | 62% |
| Grade 5 | 73% | 61% | 59% | 67% | 56% |
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 3.0pp across grades; the floor rises 10.0pp. 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.
Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet's most underrated number
58.5% 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 how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- 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 Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet in North Hills, 58.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet outperforms its district average for low-income students by 17.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (53.9% Math proficient); Hispanic students (58.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 41.7 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 258 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 8.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
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.
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.
$1,487 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 725 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 50% 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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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 | 132 | 36% | 22% | 23% | 19% | 58% | +14 |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 34% | 36% | 16% | 14% | 70% | +25 |
| Grade 5 | 145 | 39% | 29% | 22% | 10% | 68% | +20 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 132 | 26% | 36% | 17% | 21% | 62% | +16 |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 36% | 26% | 29% | 9% | 62% | +20 |
| Grade 5 | 145 | 36% | 20% | 30% | 14% | 56% | +21 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 145 | 23% | 27% | 47% | 3% |
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 | 258 | 58.5% | +18 | +20 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 269 | 58.4% | +17 | +20 |
| White | 77 | 74.0% | +5 | +12 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet ← | — | 59 | 34.4% | 62.5% | +1.9 | 0.2% |
| Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet Elementary | 1.5 mi | 86 | 72.2% | 92.4% | −1.2 | 0.1% |
| Mayall Street Elementary | 1.1 mi | 70 | 44.2% | 68.9% | +13.9 | 0.1% |
| San Jose Street Elementary | 1.3 mi | 60 | 28.4% | 48.9% | +6.7 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 64 | 85 | #820 | 39.5% | 71.4% | 8.8% | 0.2% | +2.1pp |
| 2022 | 59 | 86 | #800 | 38.3% | 68.0% | 20.1% | 0.1% | -4.7pp |
| 2023 | 55 | 79 | #1211 | 34.4% | 62.6% | 17.0% | 0.1% | -3.6pp |
| 2024 | 61 | 83 | #973 | 35.6% | 64.1% | 12.3% | 0.3% | -1.9pp |
| 2025 | 59 | 81 | #1109 | 34.4% | 62.5% | 12.4% | 0.2% | +1.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.7% | 11.8% | +2.1pp |
| Male | 7.9% | 12.7% | +4.8pp |
| Asian | 4.8% | 8.9% | +4.1pp |
| Black/African American | 15.0% | 7.7% | -7.3pp |
| White | 2.0% | 3.1% | +1.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.3% | 13.9% | +4.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 10.3% | 0.0% | -10.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.0% | 20.2% | +6.2pp |
| English Learners | 13.5% | 19.6% | +6.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 10.2% | 15.3% | +5.1pp |
| All Students | 8.8% | 12.2% | +3.4pp |
| Filipino | — | 17.9% | — |
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