William FinchCharterOrland, CAGrades K-12154 students
William Finch: A county community school. No Scope Score publishes here.
A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At William Finch, students are placed here by a district, a probation department, or a county office — so a comparative rank would measure something a family's choice never entered. We show what California reports and hold the rank.
Charter school — publicly funded, independently operated. Enrollment terms vary by charter — ask this school how it enrolls. Learn more
county community school
no score · no band · no rank — enrollment assigned, not chosen
154 students · placed by district, probation, or county
Every figure below is California's own, reported for this school and shown without a rank. Why we withhold a score →
William Finch is a county community school in Orland, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen, so its CDE CAASPP 2025 results appear here unranked.
58 students were tested here on last year's CAASPP. 28.6% met or exceeded the standard; 17.9% exceeded it.
Chronic absenteeism ran 31.8%; the suspension rate was 2.9%. California reports both the same way it does for every school — this page just doesn't rank them here.
Families don't choose a court or community school off this page — a student arrives through the court, a probation department, or a district referral. For a specific student, the county office of education or the district's alternative-education office is the right first call.
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This school against the California average
| % Exceeded | % Met+ | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 18% | 29% | 31.8% | 2.9% |
| CA average · Middle School (for reference) | 17% | 40% | 18.1% | 3.6% |
How every group of students does here
9 of 12 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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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.
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Kids here miss more school, and get suspended less, than the state average.
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 7–8 students (52.2% vs 32.4%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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About 17 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
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Pay is set by the district, not the school.
It spends $17,018 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.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
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Three in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
At 154 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 24% 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.
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Nearby schools
Nearby public schools across grade levels.
California's own growth model splits here — the 28th percentile in reading against the 6th in math, among middle 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 middle schools in reading, and the 6th in math. 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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.
Every number on this page
Everything California reports about this school, shown without a rank — grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, climate, and the nearest schools.
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 17.9% | 17.2% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 28.6% | 40.0% | 23% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 31.8% | 18.1% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.9% | 3.6% | 5% |
- Exceeded standard
- vs CA 17.2%
- Met or exceeded
- vs CA 40.0%
- Chronic absenteeism
- vs CA 18.1%
- Suspension rate
- vs CA 3.6%
ShowHide table 02 — By grade & subgroup
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 14 | 21% | 21% | 0% | 57% | 43% |
| Grade 11 | 19 | 11% | 26% | 32% | 32% | 37% |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 14 | 14% | 0% | 14% | 71% | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 18 | 0% | 0% | 22% | 78% | 0% |
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) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 34 | 3% | 21% | 62% | 15% |
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.
| School | Dist | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Finch ← | — | 17.9% | 28.6% | — | — | 2.9% |
| Price Intermediate | 0.7 mi | 2.4% | 14.7% | +3.0pp | — | 16.6% |
| California average | — | 17.2% | 40.0% | +1.5pp | — | 3.6% |
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
| Year | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1.8% | 27.4% | 30.0% | 1.5% |
| 2023 | 0.0% | 13.3% | 39.7% | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 3.1% | 12.3% | 32.0% | 2.1% |
| 2025 | 17.9% | 28.6% | 31.8% | 2.9% |
- — No Scope Score, performance band, archetype, or state rank publishes for this school — enrollment here is assigned, not chosen, so a comparative rank would mean something different than it does for a neighborhood school. See the Enrollment Axiom at /methodology#peer-class.
- — No subgroup comparison could be shown for this school this year — either its group sizes fall under CDE's 15-student reporting floor, or district/state comparison data wasn't available for its groups.
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
| Group | 2019 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Female | 42.0% | 39.8% |
| Male | 35.7% | 52.3% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 36.5% | 44.2% |
| White | 37.9% | 50.0% |
| Students with Disabilities | 50.0% | 60.5% |
| English Learners | 25.0% | 31.8% |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 39.4% | 50.4% |
| All Students | 39.6% | 45.8% |
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −5 | 25 | Average | −20 | 25 | Moderate |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −5 | 22 | Average | −19 | 22 | Moderate |
| Hispanic or Latino | −11 | 16 | Moderate | −25 | 16 | Minimal |
| English Only | −1 | 12 | not categorised | −16 | 12 | not categorised |
| English Learner | −19 | 11 | Moderate | −21 | 11 | Minimal |
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.
EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-27
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