Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (0.2% 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 | 11% | 31% | -1.9 | 67.4% | 0.2% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship scores 30 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 16th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “31% proficient” and call it done. Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship deserves a closer read. The school sits in Tarzana, where four in five 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
Climbed from the 2nd to the 16th percentile since 2023 — past roughly 800 elementary schools.
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 28% | 39% | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 28% | 33% | 52% |
| Grade 5 | 24% | 29% | 31% |
| Grade 6 | 36% | 18% | 21% |
| Grade 7 | 38% | 31% | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 31% | 38% | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 42% | 34% | 60% |
| Grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 32% | 32% | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 14% | 15% | 30% |
| Grade 5 | 11% | 13% | 21% |
| Grade 6 | 25% | 9% | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 21% | 18% | 41% |
| Grade 8 | 14% | 20% | 30% |
| Grade 11 | 23% | 23% | 48% |
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 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 Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship in Tarzana, 33.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship trails its district average for low-income students by 7.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (33.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (35.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 28.6 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 295 students tested.
9 of 17 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 rises by 14.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of TK/K students (86.6% vs 50.0%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship 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.
$1,265 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 28% 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 66
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 | 27 | 19% | 4% | 37% | 41% | 22% | −21 |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 33% | 19% | 19% | 30% | 52% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 0% | 31% | 28% | 41% | 31% | −17 |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 6% | 15% | 23% | 56% | 21% | −25 |
| Grade 7 | 79 | 8% | 29% | 27% | 37% | 37% | −11 |
| Grade 8 | 87 | 3% | 20% | 33% | 44% | 23% | −23 |
| Grade 11 | 85 | 21% | 39% | 22% | 18% | 60% | +13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 11% | 22% | 11% | 56% | 33% | −12 |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 0% | 30% | 30% | 41% | 30% | −12 |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 3% | 17% | 21% | 59% | 21% | −15 |
| Grade 6 | 54 | 9% | 7% | 20% | 63% | 17% | −18 |
| Grade 7 | 78 | 27% | 14% | 26% | 33% | 41% | +7 |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 15% | 14% | 19% | 51% | 30% | −3 |
| Grade 11 | 84 | 30% | 18% | 19% | 33% | 48% | +24 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 204 | 8% | 20% | 52% | 19% |
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 | 295 | 33.6% | −7 | −5 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 266 | 35.6% | −5 | −3 |
| Black/African American | 47 | 29.8% | −6 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship ← | — | 30 | 11.1% | 31.5% | −1.9 | 0.2% |
| Academy for Enriched Sciences | 1.6 mi | 77 | 58.0% | 80.0% | −11.9 | 0.4% |
| Wilbur Charter for Enriched Academics | 0.2 mi | 62 | 34.5% | 62.5% | +10.3 | 0.1% |
| Encino Charter Elementary | 2.3 mi | 57 | 42.0% | 68.1% | −12.8 | 0.9% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16 | 2 | #5614 | 8.2% | 22.8% | 83.3% | 0.0% | -12.4pp |
| 2024 | 19 | 2 | #5593 | 7.2% | 26.8% | 70.7% | 0.2% | -14.9pp |
| 2025 | 30 | 16 | #4824 | 11.1% | 31.5% | 67.4% | 0.2% | -1.9pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 75.8% | — |
| Male | — | 76.9% | — |
| Asian | — | 62.5% | — |
| Black/African American | — | 81.6% | — |
| Filipino | — | 90.0% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 76.2% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 79.2% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 73.1% | — |
| English Learners | — | 85.7% | — |
| Homeless | — | 91.2% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 78.6% | — |
| All Students | — | 76.3% | — |
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