Wood Ranch Elementary: English learners reach fluency faster than the state rate. But the zoned next school scores lower.
Wood Ranch holds its own. Scores drop at the schools it feeds into. Ask where its graduates actually enrol, and whether families stay on the zoned path.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 49 | 24% | 53% | -0.7 | 15.4% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Wood Ranch Elementary scores 49 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 65th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “53% proficient” and call it done. Wood Ranch deserves a closer read. The school sits in Simi Valley, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 37.5% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 54th to the 65th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 500 elementary schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 53% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 60% | 61% | 59% | 43% | 57% |
| Grade 4 | 56% | 67% | 65% | 67% | 54% |
| Grade 5 | 41% | 46% | 51% | 56% | 59% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 72% | 64% | 68% | 56% | 52% |
| Grade 4 | 58% | 46% | 63% | 59% | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 39% | 33% | 43% | 37% | 49% |
The story this school is actually telling
of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
the zoned path continues to Sinaloa Middle, which scores 19 points lower — worth asking about on a tour.
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 falls 11.5pp across grades; the floor rises 2.3pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask which schools families here actually choose next — the zoned path is only the default.
- Ask which schools families here actually choose next — the zoned path is only the default.
- 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 Wood Ranch Elementary in Simi Valley, 44.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 38.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Wood Ranch Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 5.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.8% Math proficient); White students (58.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 11.7 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 74 students tested.
8 of 14 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 falls by 9.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.9pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (20.0% vs 11.5%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The zoned path continues to Sinaloa Middle, which scores 19 points lower than this school — worth weighing alongside everything above. Families here often look at charter or magnet options for middle school.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
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.
$153 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), 38% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 67
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 48
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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 | 65 | 34% | 23% | 22% | 22% | 57% | +14 |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 31% | 23% | 29% | 17% | 54% | +9 |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 22% | 37% | 24% | 17% | 59% | +11 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 65 | 25% | 28% | 29% | 18% | 52% | +7 |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 14% | 35% | 32% | 19% | 49% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 21% | 28% | 36% | 16% | 49% | +13 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 76 | 17% | 21% | 59% | 3% |
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 | 74 | 44.6% | +6 | +6 |
| White | 130 | 58.5% | +1 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 54 | 51.9% | +14 | +13 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Ranch Elementary ← | — | 49 | 24.5% | 53.3% | −0.7 | 0.3% |
| Lang Ranch | 1.6 mi | 84 | 55.6% | 84.1% | +6.5 | 0.1% |
| Meadows Arts and Technology Elementary | 3.2 mi | 77 | 56.1% | 86.3% | +3.8 | 0.3% |
| Madera Elementary | 2.4 mi | 41 | 19.1% | 42.5% | +18.1 | 5.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 44 | 54 | #2542 | 29.1% | 54.3% | 7.9% | 0.8% | -25.6pp |
| 2022 | 36 | 50 | #2859 | 22.5% | 52.7% | 29.2% | 0.0% | -23.5pp |
| 2023 | 43 | 58 | #2382 | 24.5% | 58.2% | 19.4% | 0.4% | -16.2pp |
| 2024 | 45 | 58 | #2412 | 22.9% | 53.0% | 18.4% | 0.5% | -2.6pp |
| 2025 | 49 | 65 | #2020 | 24.5% | 53.3% | 15.4% | 0.3% | -0.7pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.0% | 12.8% | +3.8pp |
| Male | 6.5% | 17.6% | +11.1pp |
| Asian | 3.8% | 18.2% | +14.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 12.6% | 25.8% | +13.2pp |
| Two or More Races | 10.3% | 6.3% | -4.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 7.0% | 10.6% | +3.6pp |
| English Learners | 5.7% | 23.8% | +18.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 8.2% | 19.3% | +11.1pp |
| All Students | 7.8% | 15.2% | +7.4pp |
| Black/African American | — | 0.0% | — |
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