ExploreMapCompareBlogSign in

Public elementary school

Williams Elementary

San Jose, CA · Grades TK-5 · 559 students · San Jose Unified

Three in five kids exceed the standard. But this year's 5th graders test below its 3rd graders.

85% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 86% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

SchoolScope archetype

High Ceiling

What this means for your family

Ask what happens for a kid who shows up behind — a high ceiling for the top can sit right next to thin support at the bottom, and the score alone won't show you which.

How archetypes are assigned →

Contact

Math

86%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

85%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

559

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

8%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

View school performance →

Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 89%2022: 85%2023: 86%2024: 81%2025: 86%2019: 93%2022: 89%2023: 85%2024: 82%2025: 85%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 89%2022: 85%2023: 86%2024: 81%2025: 86%2019: 93%2022: 89%2023: 85%2024: 82%2025: 85%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201989%93%
202285%89%
202386%85%
202481%82%
202586%85%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Has held the 97th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “86% proficient” and call it done. Williams deserves a closer read. It sits at the 97th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

The headline number: 63.6% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.

298 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 111 tracked

Williams Elementary scores 75 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 97th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 86% meet the standard today, versus 90% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 99th percentile · Scope Score 91 of 1002022 · 99th percentile · Scope Score 91 of 1002023 · 98th percentile · Scope Score 85 of 1002024 · 97th percentile · Scope Score 76 of 1002025 · 97th percentile · Scope Score 75 of 100
ELABlue(Increased)MathBlue(Increased)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 393%85%86%80%86%
Grade 491%89%77%77%84%
Grade 593%93%84%84%85%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 389%81%90%93%90%
Grade 487%85%81%89%85%
Grade 589%88%81%71%83%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Four in five of students here meet the standard. Three in five clear it by a lot.

ELA85% met or exceeded
Exceeded 62%Met 23%Nearly Met 10%Not Met 5%
Math86% met or exceeded
Exceeded 64%Met 22%Nearly Met 10%Not Met 4%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)AbsenceSuspension
This school7564%86%Average · p497.7%0.7%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%Average · p5017.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope7539
% Exceeded64%21%
% Met+86%43%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Average · p49Average · p50
Absence7.7%17.9%
Suspension0.7%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

Our growth read and California's own model disagree here — the 49th percentile against the state's 68th.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and here the two measures disagree. Ours puts this school around the 49th percentile of California elementary schools; the state's puts it around the 68th in reading and math together — a better read than ours. We are not going to pretend one of those is the answer. Neither measure sees an individual child's classroom, and a disagreement this size is worth asking the principal about directly.

— 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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.

The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 3
60%
exceeded standard · 86% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 5
54%
exceeded standard · 85% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G3→G5SchoolScope growth measure: 49th percentile among California elementary schools.49th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 60th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.60th pctile · +4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +10 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 76th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.76th pctile · +10 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

How every group of students does here

At Williams Elementary in San Jose, 88.6% of asian students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 79.8% district-wide and 74.4% statewide. Williams Elementary outperforms its district average for asian students by 8.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Asian students (93.1% Math proficient); White students (72.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 12.3 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 175 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 85% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 85%, district —, state 43%85%
AsianAsian: this school 91%, district 81%, state 72%91% · +5 vs school
MaleMale: this school 85%, district 45%, state 42%85% · −0 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 86%, district 46%, state 44%86% · +0 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 74%, district 67%, state 56%74% · −11 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 82%, district 68%, state 56%82% · −4 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 83%, district 25%, state 32%83% · −2 vs school

6 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
ShowHide Student-group results by grade
Student-group results by grade

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.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California elementary school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Asian111 studentsAsian, reading: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 111 students.+3 pts · −4 vs typical
English Only101 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 101 students.+2 pts · −1 vs typical
English Learner43 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 43 students.−3 pts · −1 vs typical
White41 studentsWhite, reading: +8 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 41 students.+8 pts · +3 vs typical
Recently reclassified35 studentsRecently reclassified, reading: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against +8 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.−7 pts · −15 vs typical
Math
Asian112 studentsAsian, math: +16 scale-score points versus expectation, against +16 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 112 students.+16 pts · 0 vs typical
English Only101 studentsEnglish Only, math: +4 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 101 students.+4 pts · +3 vs typical
English Learner44 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 44 students.+15 pts · +13 vs typical
White41 studentsWhite, math: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 41 students.+1 pts · −4 vs typical
Recently reclassified36 studentsRecently reclassified, math: +13 scale-score points versus expectation, against +6 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 36 students.+13 pts · +7 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 4 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 21
Teaching staff25 teachers
Avg. experience13.8 years
Fully credentialed96%
First-year teachers4%
PrincipalDevin Blizzard
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$70,000 – $134,400
Principal salary$146,301 – $163,630
Superintendent salary$354,153

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

TK/K students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (19.3% vs 3.8%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 7.7%, district 23.1%, state 17.9%7.7% · −10.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.7%, district —, state 1.6%0.7% · −0.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
ShowHide attendance by student group and by grade
Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–63.8%
TK/K19.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $20,626 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$132 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $20,626, CA average $14,491$20,626 · spent at this school
Federal share$132 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$22,059 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 59%Instruction support 12%Student services 10%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 3%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,878 per pupil
2019$12,931 per pupil
2018$12,414 per pupil
2017$11,570 per pupil
2016$11,975 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

8% of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 75% 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.

Hispanic or Latino7.5% · district 54.0% · CA 56.1%
White24.9% · district 20.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian54.7% · district 14.1% · CA 10.2%
Black0.4% · district 2.1% · CA 4.8%
Other12.5% · district 9.5% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch8.2% · CA 64%
Median income$250K · CA $85K
Median home value$2.00M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+75% · CA 35%
ZIP population36,967
Median age48 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

Look beyond the brochure

A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.

Read the school’s own website ↗

Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

Ask a current family: “When your child needs help, how does the school respond?”

Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

Ask an educator: “How do you adapt a typical day for children with different needs?”

Bring these questions on a visit →

Compare nearby schools

What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Williams ElementaryPublicStrong64%86%School being viewed
Graystone ElementaryPublicStrong57%80%0.7 mi
Los Alamitos ElementaryPublicStrong51%74%2.1 mi
Simonds ElementaryPublicStrong47%74%1.3 mi
Open the comparison tool →
More nearby public and private options
Your other options

Your other options

Nearby public schools across grade levels, plus private options within 10 miles.

All schools in San Jose →

Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

20 private schools within 10 miles
Not scored
What should I check before applying?
District public
Confirm the attendance boundary and any permit options.
Charter
Check applications, priorities and deadlines with each school.
Private
Confirm admission requirements, tuition and financial aid.

Moving & enrollment

Which schools could serve my child?

Check your address with the district

School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with San Jose Unified.

District information →School website →

Schools across the K–12 journey

Leland HighScope 86direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Leland High, which sent 87 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 22 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Leland High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 91% of Leland High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

87 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 22 AP subjects taught → full record on Leland High's page
Source: UC & College Board

Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.

Plan your next step

What should I do next?

Worth a school visit

  • 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.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Williams Elementary a good elementary school?
Williams Elementary has a Scope Score of 75 out of 100, placing it in the 97th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #173 statewide. 63.6% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 42.2 percentage points above the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Williams Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 85.5% of students at Williams Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 63.6% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 21.9% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 63.6% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 596 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Williams Elementary rank in California?
Williams Elementary ranks #173 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 97th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
Is Williams Elementary getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Williams Elementary that cohort is 2023 G3 → 2025 G5, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks average among California elementary schools — roughly the 49th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the elementary Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Williams Elementary?
7.7% of students at Williams Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 0.7%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Williams Elementary compare to other schools in San Jose?
Williams Elementary scores 75/100 (97th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 559 students. Use the schools in San Jose page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Williams Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Williams Elementary in San Jose, 88.6% of asian students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 79.8% district-wide and 74.4% statewide. Williams Elementary outperforms its district average for asian students by 8.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Asian students (93.1% Math proficient); White students (72.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 12.3 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 175 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.
What middle school does Williams Elementary feed into?
By attendance boundary, Williams Elementary is zoned to Bret Harte Middle. Bret Harte Middle has a Scope Score of 71 out of 100. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education's School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary is also not a placement guarantee: magnet, charter, open-enrollment and inter-district transfer options mean students from one school often continue to several different ones. Confirm your address with the district before making an enrollment or housing decision. Data source: NCES School Attendance Boundary Survey, analyzed by SchoolScope.

Use the published evidence to prepare questions, then verify fit and access with the school.

Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

How far the top scorers get carries this score.

63.6% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 74 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard63.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded85.5%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Averageaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism7.7%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.7%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)20.0%18.0%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Williams Elementary: reading the evidence

Williams is one of the strongest elementary schools in San Jose by raw achievement. The catch worth understanding: the cohort doesn't gain ground year-over-year.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

Ask what happens for a kid who shows up behind — a high ceiling for the top can sit right next to thin support at the bottom, and the score alone won't show you which.

Explore the underlying data →
Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Williams Elementary is ranked #173 statewide · #1 of 27 in San Jose Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard63.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded85.5%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Averageaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism7.7%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.7%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)20.0%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 91 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 83 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)
↓ vs CA average · 49th pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 67 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 0.8pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 57 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 53 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ShowHide table 02 — By grade & subgroup
ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 39174%12%13%1%86%+43
Grade 49261%23%9%8%84%+39
Grade 511554%31%10%5%85%+38
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 39073%17%9%1%90%+45
Grade 49358%27%11%4%85%+44
Grade 511562%22%11%5%83%+49

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)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide11543%32%25%0%

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Asian17588.6%+9+14
White6272.6%+1+11
Two or More Races2286.4%+17+25
03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Williams Elementary ←—7563.6%85.5%−3.5pp+74 pts0.7%
Graystone Elementary0.7 mi7157.3%79.6%+10.1pp—2.3%
Los Alamitos Elementary2.1 mi6751.4%74.4%−6.9pp—1.1%
Simonds Elementary1.3 mi6446.5%73.8%+13.6pp—3.6%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20199199#2970.2%90.3%3.5%0.4%+0.3pp
20229199#4967.0%86.9%7.7%0.1%+7.7pp
20238598#9962.0%83.2%6.5%0.1%-5.9pp
20247697#17761.0%82.3%7.0%0.7%-8.6pp
20257597#17363.6%85.5%7.7%0.7%-3.5pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female2.0%5.5%+3.5pp
Male4.5%8.9%+4.4pp
Asian1.1%5.4%+4.3pp
Hispanic/Latino3.6%11.6%+8.0pp
Two or More Races3.4%4.6%+1.2pp
White7.1%11.3%+4.2pp
Students with Disabilities3.7%13.8%+10.1pp
English Learners2.4%9.5%+7.1pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged3.3%8.6%+5.3pp
All Students3.2%7.2%+4.0pp
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+4190Average+10191Accelerated
Asian+3111Average+16112Accelerated
English Only+2101not categorised+4101not categorised
English Learner−343Average+1544Accelerated
White+841Accelerated+141Average
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only−735not categorised+1336not categorised
Two or More Races+519Accelerated+1319Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino+217Average−717Moderate
Students with Disabilities−615Moderate−715Moderate
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+112Average−612Moderate

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.

Embed this scorecard
<iframe
  src="https://schoolscope.co/embed/school/williams-elementary-8755"
  width="100%" height="210" loading="lazy"
  style="border:0;border-radius:12px"
  title="Williams Elementary — SchoolScope scorecard">
</iframe>

Free to embed with the credit link. Data updates automatically.

EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

SchoolScope scores and verdicts are our interpretation of public California Department of Education data — independent analysis, not an official rating. How we analyze · Request a correction

Williams Elementary

Your school plan

0 of 4 steps checked

Your checklist stays in this browser. Checking a step records your progress; it does not confirm admission or enrollment.