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Warner Elementary

Warner Springs, CA · Grades TK-6 · 106 students · Warner Unified

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24% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 30% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

30%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

24%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

106

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

9%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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The overall score is a starting point.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

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● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201925%25%
202224%30%
202335%24%
20240%12%
202530%24%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Climbed from the 10th to the 19th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 300 elementary schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “26% proficient” and call it done. Warner 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.

The headline number: 8.5% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.

61 tested · 2 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Warner Elementary scores 24 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 19th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 26% of students meet the standard today, above the 17% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 10th percentile · Scope Score 20 of 1002022 · 19th percentile · Scope Score 20 of 1002023 · 13th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 1002024 · 2nd percentile · Scope Score 13 of 1002025 · 19th percentile · Scope Score 24 of 100
ELAOrange(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 325%21%7%27%28%
Grade 417%27%7%14%
Grade 539%40%0%20%
Grade 637%33%44%29%11%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 325%21%43%50%
Grade 40%13%0%8%
Grade 528%27%0%7%
Grade 630%14%24%14%11%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in four of students here meet the standard. 6% clear it by a lot.

ELA18% met or exceeded
Exceeded 5%Met 13%Nearly Met 34%Not Met 48%
Math25% met or exceeded
Exceeded 5%Met 20%Nearly Met 20%Not Met 56%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school246%26%8.5%1.1%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2439
% Exceeded6%21%
% Met+26%43%
Growth
Absence8.5%17.9%
Suspension1.1%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 2nd percentile of elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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 well below the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −22 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 3rd percentile of 7,519 reported schools.3rd pctile · −22 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −28 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 2nd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.2nd pctile · −28 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At Warner Elementary in Warner Springs, 22.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Warner Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 7.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (22.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 41 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 16 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 22% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 22%, district —, state 43%22%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 22%, district 26%, state 32%22% · +0 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 35%, district 35%, state 44%35% · +13 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 8%, district 8%, state 32%8% · −13 vs school

7 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 10.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -10.3pp.

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The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 21 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher21 · district 56
Teaching staff5 teachers
Avg. experience6.6 years
Fully credentialed86%
First-year teachers40%
PrincipalTimothy Bagby
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$51,130 – $103,787
Principal salary$136,584 – $136,584
Superintendent salary$153,985

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 8.5%, district 10.1%, state 17.9%8.5% · −9.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.1%, district —, state 1.6%1.1% · −0.6pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–66.7%
TK/K8.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $25,969 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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.

$3,733 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $25,969, CA average $14,491$25,969 · spent at this school
Federal share$3,733 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$31,041 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 63%Instruction support 3%Student services 8%Administration 14%Buildings & maintenance 12%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$22,058 per pupil
2019$19,623 per pupil
2018$22,897 per pupil
2017$2,191 per pupil
2016$2,549 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Two-thirds of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 106 students, this school is much smaller than 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), 13% 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.

Hispanic or Latino45.3% · district 39.6% · CA 56.1%
White12.3% · district 32.6% · CA 19.9%
Black2.8% · district 5.9% · CA 4.8%
Other39.6% · district 15.3% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 61.3% · Male 38.7%
Free or reduced lunch71.7% · CA 64%
Median income$57K · CA $85K
Median home value$386K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+33% · CA 35%
ZIP population1,406
Median age61 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
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Elementary · K–5

Middle · 6–8

No school established for this stage.

High school · 9–12

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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 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.
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  • Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Warner Elementary a good elementary school?
Warner Elementary has a Scope Score of 24 out of 100, placing it in the 19th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #4,635 statewide. 5.8% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 15.5 percentage points below the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Warner Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 26.1% of students at Warner Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 5.8% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 20.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 5.8% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 66 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Warner Elementary rank in California?
Warner Elementary ranks #4,635 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 19th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Warner Elementary?
8.5% of students at Warner Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 1.1%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Warner Elementary compare to other schools in Warner Springs?
Warner Elementary scores 24/100 (19th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 106 students. Use the schools in Warner Springs page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Warner Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Warner Elementary in Warner Springs, 22.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Warner Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 7.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (22.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 41 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Behind the evidence

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard5.8%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded26.1%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism8.5%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)0.0%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-25.6pp-2.9pp

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Warner Elementary: reading the evidence

Warner posts low test scores — and attendance holds near the state average — families haven't checked out. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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.

Explore the underlying data →
Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Warner Elementary is ranked #4,635 statewide · #4 of 5 in Warner Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard5.8%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded26.1%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism8.5%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)0.0%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-25.6pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 36 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 38 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 65 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 34.6pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 55 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 3.6pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 32 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↓ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3186%22%50%22%28%−15
Grade 410
Grade 5157%13%20%60%20%−28
Grade 6180%11%33%56%11%−35
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31811%39%39%11%50%+5
Grade 410
Grade 5150%7%20%73%7%−28
Grade 6186%6%6%83%11%−23

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide150%13%47%40%

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 · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged4122.0%−8−16
03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Warner Elementary ←245.8%26.1%−25.6pp1.1%
California average3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20192010#49415.0%16.7%11.0%1.1%
20222019#46423.8%24.8%53.7%0.3%+12.3pp
20231913#49445.8%20.6%54.4%0.4%+8.3pp
2024132#56173.3%9.8%43.1%4.7%-27.3pp
20252419#46355.8%26.1%8.5%1.1%-25.6pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 16 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female15.8%4.1%-11.7pp
Male7.2%4.3%-2.9pp
Hispanic/Latino4.1%3.4%-0.7pp
American Indian/Alaska Native11.9%2.5%-9.4pp
White13.6%14.3%+0.7pp
Students with Disabilities16.7%7.1%-9.6pp
English Learners0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged12.3%2.3%-10.0pp
All Students11.1%4.2%-6.9pp
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−2238Minimal−2838Minimal
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1328Moderate−2228Minimal
English Only−2726not categorised−3926not categorised
Hispanic or Latino−2421Minimal−1921Moderate
Students with Disabilities−4814Minimal−4714Minimal

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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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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