Westlake Charter: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Westlake Charter posts 42% meeting the standard and 19.0% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47 | 19% | 42% | +11.2 | 15.9% | 2.8% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Westlake Charter scores 47 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 62nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “42% proficient” and call it done. Westlake Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Sacramento, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Westlake Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 77th to the 62nd percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 42% meet the standard today, versus 59% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54% | 54% | 45% | 38% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 66% | 62% | 58% | 51% | 47% |
| Grade 5 | 65% | 68% | 72% | 61% | 56% |
| Grade 6 | 68% | 50% | 56% | 65% | 50% |
| Grade 7 | 67% | 78% | 63% | 68% | 66% |
| Grade 8 | 62% | 57% | 62% | 55% | 64% |
| Grade 11 | — | — | — | 72% | 63% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 64% | 49% | 42% | 36% | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 63% | 52% | 50% | 36% | 36% |
| Grade 5 | 43% | 42% | 46% | 52% | 40% |
| Grade 6 | 50% | 35% | 41% | 42% | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 43% | 52% | 47% | 54% | 54% |
| Grade 8 | 49% | 31% | 44% | 31% | 49% |
| Grade 11 | — | — | — | 31% | 30% |
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 12.6pp across grades; the floor rises 18.4pp. 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.
The 5 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 Westlake Charter in Sacramento, 42.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 31.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Westlake Charter outperforms its district average for low-income students by 11.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (46.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 21.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 298 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 16.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +8.4pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (20.5% vs 12.1%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Westlake Charter 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.
$1,546 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 1,493 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 43% 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 61
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 42
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 3 | 104 | 14% | 23% | 27% | 36% | 38% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 22% | 25% | 24% | 29% | 47% | +3 |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 27% | 29% | 19% | 25% | 56% | +8 |
| Grade 6 | 111 | 24% | 26% | 25% | 24% | 50% | +4 |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 31% | 34% | 19% | 16% | 66% | +18 |
| Grade 8 | 110 | 22% | 42% | 19% | 17% | 64% | +18 |
| Grade 11 | 95 | 29% | 34% | 23% | 14% | 63% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 104 | 16% | 19% | 28% | 37% | 36% | −10 |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 12% | 24% | 33% | 31% | 36% | −6 |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 23% | 17% | 32% | 29% | 40% | +4 |
| Grade 6 | 111 | 19% | 17% | 29% | 35% | 36% | +1 |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 32% | 21% | 22% | 24% | 54% | +20 |
| Grade 8 | 110 | 31% | 18% | 28% | 23% | 49% | +17 |
| Grade 11 | 96 | 13% | 18% | 26% | 44% | 30% | +7 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 314 | 16% | 27% | 49% | 8% |
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 | 298 | 42.6% | +12 | +4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 212 | 46.7% | +11 | +8 |
| Asian | 185 | 60.5% | +8 | −14 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westlake Charter ← | — | 47 | 19.0% | 41.9% | +11.2 | 2.8% |
| Natomas Charter | 1.5 mi | 68 | 37.0% | 62.6% | +3.0 | 1.0% |
| Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Elementary | 1.8 mi | 65 | 38.9% | 70.4% | −5.6 | 0.1% |
| Heron | 1 mi | 51 | 28.0% | 54.9% | −4.0 | 6.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 57 | 77 | #1259 | 31.1% | 59.1% | 4.0% | 0.4% | -5.7pp |
| 2022 | 50 | 77 | #1330 | 26.4% | 54.6% | 25.3% | 0.9% | +3.8pp |
| 2023 | 58 | 83 | #984 | 23.3% | 52.1% | 22.1% | 2.1% | +15.4pp |
| 2024 | 50 | 68 | #1863 | 20.7% | 45.9% | 19.3% | 2.8% | +19.5pp |
| 2025 | 47 | 62 | #2171 | 19.0% | 41.9% | 15.9% | 2.8% | +11.2pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.9% | 15.4% | +10.5pp |
| Male | 3.0% | 16.1% | +13.1pp |
| Asian | 2.6% | 10.6% | +8.0pp |
| Black/African American | 5.8% | 17.6% | +11.8pp |
| White | 1.9% | 10.8% | +8.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 4.4% | 19.9% | +15.5pp |
| Two or More Races | 3.7% | 15.4% | +11.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 4.0% | 23.6% | +19.6pp |
| English Learners | 1.8% | 14.2% | +12.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 6.0% | 21.7% | +15.7pp |
| All Students | 3.9% | 15.8% | +11.9pp |
| Pacific Islander | — | 42.9% | — |
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