Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and posts 39% meeting the standard and 14.7% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42 | 15% | 39% | +0.4 | 14.8% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 52nd percentile of 2,238 California middle 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 “39% proficient” and call it done. Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and deserves a closer read. It sits at the 52nd percentile of 2,238 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: 0.1% suspension rate — versus 3.7% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 21st to the 52nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 500 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 39% of students meet the standard today, above the 33% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 43% | 42% | 34% | 45% | 47% |
| Grade 7 | 53% | 64% | 49% | 49% | 46% |
| Grade 8 | 33% | 47% | 55% | 48% | 45% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 24% | 14% | 19% | 18% | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 28% | 28% | 24% | 30% | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 17% | 17% | 26% | 23% | 29% |
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 falls 2.9pp across grades; the floor slips 2.0pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and in Walnut Park, 44.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (46.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 46.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 327 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 falls by 2.9pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
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.
$3,372 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), 24% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 45
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 56
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 56
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 peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 87 | 13% | 34% | 33% | 20% | 47% | +1 |
| Grade 7 | 133 | 18% | 28% | 21% | 33% | 46% | −2 |
| Grade 8 | 133 | 10% | 35% | 22% | 33% | 45% | −1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 87 | 14% | 13% | 28% | 46% | 26% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 134 | 17% | 20% | 28% | 34% | 37% | +3 |
| Grade 8 | 133 | 17% | 13% | 27% | 44% | 29% | −3 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 133 | 6% | 18% | 64% | 12% |
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 | 327 | 44.8% | +4 | +7 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 349 | 46.3% | +5 | +7 |
| English Learners | 42 | 0.0% | −7 | −10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Park Middle A School of Social Justice and ← | — | 42 | 14.7% | 38.5% | +0.4 | 0.1% |
| Alliance Kory Hunter Middle | 1.4 mi | 46 | 11.1% | 35.5% | +5.7 | 2.9% |
| Animo Florence-Firestone Charter Middle | 0.9 mi | 45 | 9.2% | 31.3% | +15.8 | 0.8% |
| South Gate Middle | 2.3 mi | 44 | 14.1% | 34.8% | −0.5 | 0.0% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 28 | 21 | #1584 | 9.4% | 33.0% | 17.8% | 0.2% | -8.3pp |
| 2022 | 39 | 55 | #978 | 11.8% | 35.5% | 35.9% | 0.2% | +3.8pp |
| 2023 | 47 | 65 | #766 | 11.1% | 34.3% | 28.9% | 0.1% | +13.9pp |
| 2024 | 37 | 48 | #1140 | 8.0% | 35.5% | 13.8% | 0.7% | +4.5pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 52 | #1068 | 14.7% | 38.5% | 14.8% | 0.1% | +0.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 19.5% | 14.4% | -5.1pp |
| Male | 16.1% | 14.7% | -1.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 17.8% | 14.8% | -3.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 24.4% | 10.6% | -13.8pp |
| English Learners | 32.7% | 18.2% | -14.5pp |
| Foster Youth | 25.0% | — | — |
| Homeless | 33.3% | 16.7% | -16.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 18.5% | 15.3% | -3.2pp |
| All Students | 17.9% | 14.6% | -3.3pp |
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