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Wilsona Elementary

Lancaster, CA · Grades 3-5 · 403 students · Wilsona Elementary

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19% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 16% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictWilsona Elementary
PrincipalJoan Hammond
Grades3-5
Enrollment403 students

Math

16%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

19%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

403

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

28%

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%2025: 16%2025: 19%20250%25%50%75%100%2025: 16%2025: 19%2025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
202516%19%

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
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in five of students here meet the standard. 7% clear it by a lot.

ELA20% met or exceeded
Exceeded 6%Met 14%Nearly Met 21%Not Met 59%
Math20% met or exceeded
Exceeded 7%Met 13%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 56%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2025–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school197%20%—28.3%1.1%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1939
% Exceeded7%21%
% Met+20%43%
Growth——
Absence28.3%17.9%
Suspension1.1%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 14th 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. 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: −19 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 5th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.5th pctile · −19 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −9 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 23rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.23rd pctile · −9 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Wilsona Elementary in Lancaster, 19.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 19.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Wilsona Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (19.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (20.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 13.6 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 371 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 19 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 20% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 20%, district —, state 43%20%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 19%, district 16%, state 32%19% · −1 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 21%, district 17%, state 32%21% · +1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 26%, district 18%, state 42%26% · +6 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 14%, district 13%, state 44%14% · −6 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 8%, district 5%, state 11%8% · −12 vs school
HomelessHomeless: this school 18%, district 12%, state 22%18% · −3 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 11%, district 8%, state 15%11% · −9 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 14%, district 14%, state 26%14% · −6 vs school
WhiteWhite: too few students to report‹11
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: too few students to report‹11
American Indian/Alaska NativeAmerican Indian/Alaska Native: too few students to report‹11
Foster YouthFoster Youth: too few students to report‹11
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 rises by 6.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.1pp.

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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
Low-income students230 studentsLow-income students, reading: −21 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 230 students.−21 pts · −21 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students213 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −20 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 213 students.−20 pts · −21 vs typical
English Only126 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −21 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 126 students.−21 pts · −24 vs typical
English Learner112 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: −17 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 112 students.−17 pts · −15 vs typical
English learners only83 studentsEnglish learners only, reading: −27 scale-score points versus expectation, against −11 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 83 students.−27 pts · −16 vs typical
Math
Low-income students230 studentsLow-income students, math: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 230 students.−8 pts · −7 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students213 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 213 students.−8 pts · −7 vs typical
English Only126 studentsEnglish Only, math: −13 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 126 students.−13 pts · −14 vs typical
English Learner112 studentsEnglish Learner, math: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 112 students.−3 pts · −5 vs typical
English learners only83 studentsEnglish learners only, math: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 83 students.−3 pts · −1 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 3 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 23
Teaching staff20 teachers
Avg. experience14.0 years
First-year teachers15%
PrincipalJoan Hammond
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

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

28.3% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 17.9% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — a school visit will tell you more than this number.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 28.3%, district 31.4%, state 17.9%28.3% · +10.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.1%, district —, state 1.6%1.1% · −0.5pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–629.8%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $23,835 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$3,854 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: $23,835, CA average $14,491$23,835 · spent at this school
Federal share$3,854 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$24,558 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 55%Instruction support 10%Student services 10%Administration 10%Buildings & maintenance 8%Other 6%

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$15,629 per pupil
2019$14,088 per pupil
2018$13,105 per pupil
2017$13,050 per pupil
2016$12,914 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 9% 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 Latino86.3% · district 83.3% · CA 56.1%
White4.2% · district 7.9% · CA 19.9%
Black7.4% · district 6.6% · CA 4.8%
Other2.0% · district 2.1% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch87.3% · CA 64%
Median income$70K · CA $85K
Median home value$381K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+15% · CA 35%
ZIP population79,409
Median age32 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

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Family voices

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

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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.

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Wilsona ElementaryPublicNeeds Support7%20%School being viewed
Lake Los Angeles ElementaryPublicNeeds Support4%17%1.9 mi
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Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

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  • Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Wilsona Elementary a good elementary school?
Wilsona Elementary has a Scope Score of 19 out of 100, placing it in the 9th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #5,201 statewide. 6.6% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 14.7 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 Wilsona Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 20.3% of students at Wilsona Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 6.6% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 13.6% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 6.6% 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. 795 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Wilsona Elementary rank in California?
Wilsona Elementary ranks #5,201 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 9th 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 Wilsona Elementary?
28.3% of students at Wilsona Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 1.1%, 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 Wilsona Elementary compare to other schools in Lancaster?
Wilsona Elementary scores 19/100 (9th 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 403 students. Use the schools in Lancaster page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Wilsona Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Wilsona Elementary in Lancaster, 19.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 19.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Wilsona Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (19.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (20.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 13.6 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 371 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.

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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

The 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard6.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded20.3%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.3%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)10.4%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-4.8pp-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

Wilsona Elementary: reading the evidence

Wilsona posts low test scores — and test scores are one lens among several. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

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.

Wilsona Elementary is ranked #5,201 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard6.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded20.3%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.3%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)10.4%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-4.8pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 36 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 33 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 17.9% · index 33 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 54 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 40 · 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 31287%9%23%60%16%−27
Grade 41307%16%25%52%23%−22
Grade 51395%17%14%64%22%−26
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31288%16%32%45%23%−22
Grade 413011%18%25%47%28%−13
Grade 51402%6%16%76%9%−26

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
Schoolwide1402%6%58%34%

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 Disadvantaged37119.1%−0−19
Hispanic/Latino33820.7%−0−18
English Learners1366.6%+2−4
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
Wilsona Elementary ←—196.6%20.3%−4.8pp—1.1%
Lake Los Angeles Elementary1.9 mi194.3%17.1%−0.3pp—1.7%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
What we can't show
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 19 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
04Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 04 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female—29.4%—
Male—28.0%—
Black/African American—30.6%—
Hispanic/Latino—27.9%—
White—33.3%—
Students with Disabilities—26.8%—
English Learners—23.8%—
Homeless—20.0%—
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged—28.7%—
All Students—28.7%—
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−19245Moderate−9245Moderate
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−21230Minimal−8230Moderate
Hispanic or Latino−20213Moderate−8213Moderate
English Only−21126not categorised−13126not categorised
English Learner−17112Moderate−3112Average
English Learners Only−2783not categorised−383not categorised
Homeless Youth−2854Minimal−854Moderate
Students with Disabilities−3939Minimal−839Moderate
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+929not categorised−429not categorised
Black or African American−1918Moderate−118Average
White−812Moderate−3512Minimal

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. 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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