Westside Global Awareness Magnet: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Westside Global Awareness Magnet posts 44% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 42 | 15% | 44% | -16.5 | 32.2% | 2.5% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Westside Global Awareness Magnet scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 48th 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 “44% proficient” and call it done. Westside Global Awareness Magnet deserves a closer read. The school sits in Marina Del Rey, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 66th to the 48th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 44% of students meet the standard today, above the 41% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 17% | — | 25% | 42% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 56% | 28% | 25% | 57% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 55% | 57% | 55% | 33% | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 40% | 36% | 43% | 42% | 22% |
| Grade 7 | 53% | 29% | 50% | 53% | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 53% | 36% | 32% | 44% | 71% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 30% | — | 55% | 50% | 48% |
| Grade 4 | 41% | 17% | 42% | 76% | 75% |
| Grade 5 | 45% | 48% | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 31% | 12% | 25% | 14% | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 27% | 9% | 18% | 34% | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 30% | 15% | 11% | 13% | 44% |
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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.
- 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 Westside Global Awareness Magnet in Marina Del Rey, 34.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Westside Global Awareness Magnet trails its district average for low-income students by 6.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (42.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 12.9 percentage points for black students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 157 students tested.
6 of 13 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 falls by 14.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
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
$1,895 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 241 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 34% 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 76
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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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 | 21 | 5% | 33% | 29% | 33% | 38% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 12 | 17% | 33% | 25% | 25% | 50% | +5 |
| Grade 5 | 19 | 11% | 16% | 53% | 21% | 26% | −22 |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 9% | 13% | 37% | 41% | 22% | −25 |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 5% | 26% | 51% | 19% | 30% | −17 |
| Grade 8 | 34 | 12% | 59% | 21% | 9% | 71% | +25 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 21 | 19% | 29% | 24% | 29% | 48% | +2 |
| Grade 4 | 12 | 33% | 42% | 8% | 17% | 75% | +33 |
| Grade 5 | 19 | 5% | 21% | 47% | 26% | 26% | −9 |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 13% | 13% | 22% | 52% | 26% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 2% | 7% | 37% | 53% | 9% | −25 |
| Grade 8 | 34 | 15% | 29% | 26% | 29% | 44% | +12 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 53 | 9% | 25% | 55% | 11% |
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 | 157 | 34.4% | −7 | −4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 92 | 42.4% | +1 | +4 |
| Black/African American | 43 | 34.9% | −1 | +2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westside Global Awareness Magnet ← | — | 42 | 14.9% | 43.9% | −16.5 | 2.5% |
| Mar Vista Elementary | 3.1 mi | 77 | 55.0% | 83.1% | −1.1 | 0.1% |
| Broadway Elementary | 1.3 mi | 76 | 64.0% | 82.2% | −6.2 | 0.1% |
| Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary | 1 mi | 75 | 51.0% | 76.1% | −10.9 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 49 | 66 | #1896 | 10.9% | 40.7% | 26.6% | 0.0% | +26.1pp |
| 2022 | 37 | 53 | #2721 | 17.2% | 37.2% | 39.6% | 0.0% | — |
| 2023 | 45 | 64 | #2033 | 14.6% | 38.6% | 36.2% | 1.6% | +2.5pp |
| 2024 | 41 | 48 | #3004 | 19.8% | 47.7% | 24.9% | 0.7% | -15.3pp |
| 2025 | 42 | 48 | #3009 | 14.9% | 43.9% | 32.2% | 2.5% | -16.5pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 24.8% | 34.8% | +10.0pp |
| Male | 28.8% | 37.7% | +8.9pp |
| Black/African American | 26.8% | 41.3% | +14.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 23.7% | 32.4% | +8.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 42.1% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 34.2% | 40.8% | +6.6pp |
| English Learners | 25.8% | 13.3% | -12.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 27.2% | 39.7% | +12.5pp |
| All Students | 26.8% | 36.3% | +9.5pp |
| Filipino | — | 54.5% | — |
| Homeless | — | 75.0% | — |
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