Woodland Star Charter: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Woodland Star Charter pairs 55% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Woodland Star Charter scores 55 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 77th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “55% proficient” and call it done. Woodland Star Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Glen Ellen, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +8.0pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
As a charter, Woodland Star Charter enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
The story this school is actually telling
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 rises 12.0pp across grades; the floor rises 20.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Woodland Star Charter's most underrated number
55.6% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Your other options
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 23.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +2.0pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 25 | 28% | 24% | 24% | 24% | 52% | +9 |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 15% | 37% | 19% | 30% | 52% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 40% | 32% | 20% | 8% | 72% | +24 |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 26% | 33% | 19% | 22% | 59% | +13 |
| Grade 7 | 24 | 17% | 29% | 38% | 17% | 46% | −2 |
| Grade 8 | 19 | 11% | 42% | 21% | 26% | 53% | +7 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 25 | 24% | 36% | 12% | 28% | 60% | +14 |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 7% | 33% | 26% | 33% | 41% | −1 |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 32% | 24% | 24% | 20% | 56% | +21 |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 19% | 19% | 30% | 33% | 37% | +2 |
| Grade 7 | 24 | 25% | 25% | 13% | 38% | 50% | +16 |
| Grade 8 | 19 | 16% | 11% | 37% | 37% | 26% | −6 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 44 | 36% | 9% | 52% | 2% |
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 | 36 | 55.6% | +31 | +17 |
| White | 64 | 65.6% | +5 | +4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Star Charter ← | — | 55 | 24.4% | 55.4% | +8.0 | 0.9% |
| Kenwood Elementary | 2.5 mi | 60 | 32.5% | 69.6% | −14.4 | 0.4% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.