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Wilshire Crest Elementary

Los Angeles, CA · Grades TK-5 · 154 students · Los Angeles Unified

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50% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 50% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

50%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

50%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

154

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

26%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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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 →

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0%25%50%75%100%2019: 11%2022: 21%2023: 41%2024: 18%2025: 50%2019: 31%2022: 29%2023: 53%2024: 26%2025: 50%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 11%2022: 21%2023: 41%2024: 18%2025: 50%2019: 31%2022: 29%2023: 53%2024: 26%2025: 50%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201911%31%
202221%29%
202341%53%
202418%26%
202550%50%

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

Climbed from the 3rd to the 47th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 2300 elementary schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “41% proficient” and call it done. Wilshire Crest deserves a closer read. Three in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

49 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Wilshire Crest Elementary scores 35 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 47th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 41% of students meet the standard today, above the 18% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 3rd percentile · Scope Score 15 of 1002022 · 36th percentile · Scope Score 26 of 1002023 · 50th percentile · Scope Score 33 of 1002024 · 24th percentile · Scope Score 27 of 1002025 · 47th percentile · Scope Score 35 of 100
ELAGreen(Increased Significantly)MathGreen(Increased Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 350%32%53%31%58%
Grade 417%45%39%38%40%
Grade 512%27%—22%40%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 323%21%41%25%68%
Grade 46%—28%33%13%
Grade 50%——11%27%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.

ELA47% met or exceeded
Exceeded 18%Met 29%Nearly Met 20%Not Met 33%
Math39% met or exceeded
Exceeded 14%Met 24%Nearly Met 35%Not Met 27%
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+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school3515%41%—25.5%0.8%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3539
% Exceeded15%21%
% Met+41%43%
Growth——
Absence25.5%17.9%
Suspension0.8%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 24th percentile of elementary 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 elementary schools in reading and math together. 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 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −10 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 17th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.17th pctile · −10 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −6 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 30th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.30th pctile · −6 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

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard about even with the same group statewide.

At Wilshire Crest Elementary in Los Angeles, 40.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Wilshire Crest Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.4% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 35 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 43% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 43%, district —, state 43%43%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 36%, district 36%, state 32%36% · −7 vs school

8 of 10 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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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.

Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 2.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.

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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 19 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher19 · district 20
Teaching staff8 teachers
Avg. experience9.4 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalGayle Robinson
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Teacher salary schedule$60,420 – $122,706
Principal salary$154,576 – $170,030
Superintendent salary$440,000

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended less, than the state average.

25.5% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 17.9% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — the data can't say why.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 25.5%, district 22.8%, state 17.9%25.5% · +7.6pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.8%, district —, state 1.6%0.8% · −0.8pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–629.4%
TK/K31.4%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $38,276 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$2,789 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: $38,276, CA average $14,491$38,276 · spent at this school
Federal share$2,789 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$29,292 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 52%Instruction support 16%Student services 12%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 2%

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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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$18,180 per pupil
2019$16,355 per pupil
2018$15,793 per pupil
2017$13,247 per pupil
2016$13,549 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 154 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

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

On the state's science test (CAST), 20% 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 Latino52.0% · district 73.2% · CA 56.1%
White8.4% · district 9.9% · CA 19.9%
Black26.6% · district 7.2% · CA 4.8%
Other13.0% · district 6.3% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch78.6% · CA 64%
Median income$110K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.88M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+69% · CA 35%
ZIP population39,278
Median age37 years

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

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

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Middle College HighScope 77direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Middle College High, which sent 5 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 11 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Middle College High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 87% of Middle College High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

5 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 11 AP subjects taught → full record on Middle College High's page
Source: UC & College Board

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Is Wilshire Crest Elementary a good elementary school?
Wilshire Crest Elementary has a Scope Score of 35 out of 100, placing it in the 47th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #3,048 statewide. 15.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 5.9 percentage points below 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 Wilshire Crest Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 41.0% of students at Wilshire Crest Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 15.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 25.6% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 15.4% 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. 98 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Wilshire Crest Elementary rank in California?
Wilshire Crest Elementary ranks #3,048 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 47th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Wilshire Crest Elementary?
25.5% of students at Wilshire Crest Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 0.8%, 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 Wilshire Crest Elementary compare to other schools in Los Angeles?
Wilshire Crest Elementary scores 35/100 (47th 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 154 students. Use the schools in Los Angeles page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Wilshire Crest Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Wilshire Crest Elementary in Los Angeles, 40.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Wilshire Crest Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.4% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 35 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 Wilshire Crest Elementary feed into?
By attendance boundary, Wilshire Crest Elementary is zoned to John Burroughs Middle. John Burroughs Middle has a Scope Score of 52 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.

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard15.4%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded41.0%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism25.5%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.8%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)25.0%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-29.8pp-2.9pp—

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

Wilshire Crest Elementary: reading the evidence

Wilshire Crest posts 41% meeting the standard and 15.4% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

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

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.

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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.

Wilshire Crest Elementary is ranked #3,048 statewide · #339 of 579 in Los Angeles Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard15.4%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded41.0%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism25.5%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.8%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)25.0%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-29.8pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 45 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 49 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 17.9% · index 38 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 1.3pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 56 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 0.5pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 58 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↓ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31932%26%26%16%58%+15
Grade 4157%33%7%53%40%−5
Grade 51513%27%27%33%40%−8
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31921%47%21%11%68%+23
Grade 4150%13%47%40%13%−28
Grade 51520%7%40%33%27%−8

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
Schoolwide1513%7%67%13%

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
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged3540.0%−1+2
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
Wilshire Crest Elementary ←—3515.4%41.0%−29.8pp—0.8%
Third Street Elementary1.1 mi8968.3%88.9%+1.1pp—0.1%
Melrose Avenue Elementary1.9 mi6747.5%71.5%+4.7pp—0.3%
Horace Mann Elementary2.2 mi6148.2%71.4%−15.1pp—0.8%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
2019153#53013.0%17.8%25.6%1.2%-30.4pp
20222636#36787.5%31.3%44.2%0.5%+1.0pp
20233350#285512.9%40.2%26.9%0.9%—
20242724#43159.4%26.7%26.8%0.4%-11.5pp
20253547#304815.4%41.0%25.5%0.8%-29.8pp
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
Female33.3%19.5%-13.8pp
Male24.0%35.3%+11.3pp
Asian33.3%——
Black/African American30.6%38.1%+7.5pp
Hispanic/Latino22.8%25.3%+2.5pp
Two or More Races50.0%——
Students with Disabilities16.7%40.0%+23.3pp
English Learners28.6%29.6%+1.0pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged25.8%31.3%+5.5pp
All Students29.0%27.8%-1.2pp
White—23.5%—
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−1026Moderate−626Moderate
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1123Moderate−1123Moderate
English Only−1121not categorised−921not categorised
Hispanic or Latino−713Moderate−1313Moderate
Black or African American−1112Moderate+312Average

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.

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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

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