Weaverville Elementary: Scores climb 19.5 points from grade 3 to grade 5. But suspensions run 6× the state rate.
Weaverville has real strengths and one number that complicates them. Most rating sites show you one or the other. Both belong on the same page.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 69 | 34% | 62% | +19.5 | 26.9% | 9.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Weaverville Elementary scores 69 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 91st percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “62% proficient” and call it done. Weaverville deserves a closer read. The school sits in Weaverville, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +19.5pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 47th to the 91st percentile since 2019 — past roughly 2400 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 62% of students meet the standard today, above the 42% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54% | 61% | 35% | 67% | 55% |
| Grade 4 | 26% | 31% | 31% | 37% | 63% |
| Grade 5 | 56% | 48% | 46% | 49% | 77% |
| Grade 6 | 59% | 66% | 35% | 37% | 42% |
| Grade 7 | 53% | 65% | 72% | 32% | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 57% | 51% | 47% | 41% | 24% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 41% | 53% | 34% | 50% | 48% |
| Grade 4 | 29% | 27% | 33% | 57% | 67% |
| Grade 5 | 48% | 38% | 31% | 31% | 65% |
| Grade 6 | 46% | 50% | 23% | 29% | 19% |
| Grade 7 | 39% | 39% | 36% | 24% | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 43% | 53% | 32% | 29% | 25% |
The story this school is actually telling
separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
of students were suspended, versus 1.6% statewide — worth asking about on a tour.
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 22.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask about the discipline philosophy and what a typical suspension is for. Numbers can't tell you whether a campus feels strict or chaotic — a visit can.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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.
How every group of students does here
At Weaverville Elementary in Weaverville, 43.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 41.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Weaverville Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 1.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (32.4% Math proficient); White students (47.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 4.4 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 128 students tested.
9 of 14 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 20.6pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +16.7pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (47.2% vs 18.9%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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 road from this school ends at Trinity High, which teaches 4 AP subjects. That number describes past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Trinity High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 58% of Trinity High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,103 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
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.
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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 | 31 | 32% | 23% | 13% | 32% | 55% | +11 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 38% | 25% | 21% | 17% | 63% | +18 |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 31% | 46% | 12% | 12% | 77% | +29 |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 8% | 34% | 32% | 26% | 42% | −4 |
| Grade 7 | 41 | 15% | 24% | 29% | 32% | 39% | −9 |
| Grade 8 | 25 | 0% | 24% | 48% | 28% | 24% | −22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 31 | 19% | 29% | 26% | 26% | 48% | +3 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 46% | 21% | 25% | 8% | 67% | +25 |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 38% | 27% | 23% | 12% | 65% | +30 |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 8% | 11% | 27% | 54% | 19% | −16 |
| Grade 7 | 41 | 5% | 15% | 27% | 54% | 20% | −14 |
| Grade 8 | 24 | 0% | 25% | 25% | 50% | 25% | −7 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 50 | 10% | 40% | 46% | 4% |
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 | 128 | 43.5% | +2 | +5 |
| White | 142 | 47.7% | +0 | −14 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weaverville Elementary ← | — | 69 | 34.0% | 62.5% | +19.5 | 9.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 41 | 47 | #2902 | 18.1% | 42.2% | 17.9% | 6.8% | +4.7pp |
| 2022 | 32 | 41 | #3394 | 18.3% | 43.0% | 25.3% | 10.6% | -13.8pp |
| 2023 | 37 | 45 | #3171 | 10.8% | 35.0% | 30.4% | 7.2% | +3.3pp |
| 2024 | 38 | 39 | #3520 | 22.7% | 48.3% | 23.5% | 5.4% | -18.4pp |
| 2025 | 69 | 91 | #538 | 34.0% | 62.5% | 26.9% | 9.3% | +19.5pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 19.0% | 24.0% | +5.0pp |
| Male | 17.0% | 33.0% | +16.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.4% | 32.3% | +26.9pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 30.0% | 45.5% | +15.5pp |
| Two or More Races | 41.7% | 42.4% | +0.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 16.7% | 31.6% | +14.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 21.5% | 33.6% | +12.1pp |
| All Students | 18.0% | 28.5% | +10.5pp |
| Homeless | — | 58.3% | — |
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