Wiley Canyon Elementary: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Wiley Canyon posts 48% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 18% | 48% | -0.4 | 15.0% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Wiley Canyon Elementary scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 60th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “48% proficient” and call it done. Wiley Canyon deserves a closer read. The school sits in Newhall, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Wiley Canyon's low-income kids hit 51.1% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 60th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 48% meet the standard today, versus 53% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 49% | 33% | 50% | 49% | 42% |
| Grade 4 | 54% | 32% | 46% | 39% | 52% |
| Grade 5 | 48% | 50% | 53% | 60% | 65% |
| Grade 6 | 50% | 40% | 55% | 51% | 63% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 56% | 47% | 45% | 55% | 53% |
| Grade 4 | 57% | 47% | 44% | 32% | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 55% | 38% | 47% | 51% | 28% |
| Grade 6 | 43% | 43% | 41% | 51% | 43% |
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 holds steady across grades; the floor rises 23.9pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Wiley Canyon's most underrated number
51.1% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
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 whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Wiley Canyon Elementary in Newhall, 51.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 53.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Wiley Canyon Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 2.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (49.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 28.3 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 174 students tested.
8 of 15 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 27.5pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +9.0pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$238 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), 41% 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 | 53 | 19% | 23% | 25% | 34% | 42% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 23% | 29% | 15% | 33% | 52% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 20% | 45% | 15% | 20% | 65% | +18 |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 18% | 45% | 19% | 18% | 63% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 53 | 25% | 28% | 28% | 19% | 53% | +7 |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 11% | 38% | 19% | 32% | 49% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 9% | 19% | 33% | 39% | 28% | −7 |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 25% | 17% | 30% | 27% | 43% | +8 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 56 | 13% | 29% | 45% | 14% |
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 | 174 | 51.1% | −3 | +13 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 175 | 49.1% | −5 | +10 |
| English Learners | 44 | 20.5% | −6 | +10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiley Canyon Elementary ← | — | 46 | 17.8% | 48.1% | −0.4 | 0.1% |
| Stevenson Ranch Elementary | 2.4 mi | 84 | 62.1% | 84.8% | +0.5 | 0.6% |
| Oak Hills Elementary | 2.8 mi | 77 | 52.1% | 77.1% | +10.7 | 0.1% |
| Pico Canyon Elementary | 1.2 mi | 76 | 54.0% | 77.9% | −5.9 | 0.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 51 | 68 | #1783 | 24.2% | 53.2% | 6.1% | 0.7% | -1.2pp |
| 2022 | 43 | 67 | #1917 | 17.2% | 41.1% | 24.2% | 0.9% | +3.9pp |
| 2023 | 48 | 69 | #1762 | 17.0% | 47.5% | 18.4% | 0.5% | +2.7pp |
| 2024 | 54 | 74 | #1463 | 19.7% | 47.7% | 20.2% | 0.4% | +3.5pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 60 | #2291 | 17.8% | 48.1% | 15.0% | 0.1% | -0.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.8% | 15.6% | +10.8pp |
| Male | 7.1% | 14.0% | +6.9pp |
| Asian | 6.7% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.8% | 16.0% | +10.2pp |
| Two or More Races | 7.1% | 0.0% | -7.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 4.2% | 18.1% | +13.9pp |
| English Learners | 5.0% | 6.2% | +1.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 6.4% | 17.2% | +10.8pp |
| All Students | 6.0% | 14.7% | +8.7pp |
| Filipino | — | 5.9% | — |
| White | — | 9.1% | — |
| Homeless | — | 15.8% | — |
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