Woodson Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Woodson posts 28% meeting the standard and 9.8% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 39 | 10% | 28% | -0.5 | 13.1% | 0.8% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Woodson Elementary scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 41st percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “28% proficient” and call it done. Woodson deserves a closer read. The school sits in Corning, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 5th to the 41st percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1900 elementary schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 28% meet the standard today, versus 35% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 51% | 12% | 15% | 25% | 29% |
| Grade 4 | 21% | 20% | 25% | 29% | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 19% | 18% | 23% | 31% |
| Grade 6 | 29% | 13% | 12% | 12% | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 29% | 11% | 15% | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 3% | 16% | 15% | — | — |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54% | 21% | 19% | 28% | 27% |
| Grade 4 | 32% | 18% | 31% | 29% | 30% |
| Grade 5 | 23% | 11% | 3% | 20% | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 9% | 7% | 11% | 6% | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 19% | 11% | 7% | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 0% | 10% | 7% | — | — |
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 falls 3.6pp across grades; the floor rises 2.0pp. 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 what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 Woodson Elementary in Corning, 26.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 23.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Woodson Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (23.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (24.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.9 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 244 students tested.
6 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 1.5pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +0.0pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The zoned path continues to Maywood Middle, which scores 16 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
$404 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), 14% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 68 | 12% | 18% | 28% | 43% | 29% | −14 |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 12% | 13% | 16% | 59% | 25% | −20 |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 8% | 23% | 28% | 41% | 31% | −16 |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 6% | 18% | 27% | 49% | 24% | −22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 71 | 11% | 15% | 18% | 55% | 27% | −19 |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 14% | 15% | 30% | 41% | 30% | −12 |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 2% | 22% | 17% | 59% | 24% | −11 |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 8% | 6% | 16% | 71% | 14% | −21 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 87 | 1% | 13% | 61% | 25% |
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 | 244 | 26.2% | +3 | −12 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 201 | 24.4% | +2 | −14 |
| English Learners | 114 | 8.8% | +1 | −2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodson Elementary ← | — | 39 | 9.8% | 27.6% | −0.5 | 0.8% |
| West Street Elementary | 0.7 mi | 33 | 6.8% | 26.1% | +2.2 | 3.2% |
| Olive View Elementary | 1.5 mi | 30 | 8.1% | 22.8% | −9.6 | 1.5% |
| Kirkwood Elementary | 2.3 mi | 30 | 7.7% | 23.1% | — | 1.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 22 | 5 | #5256 | 11.8% | 35.1% | 7.7% | 8.2% | -26.0pp |
| 2022 | 21 | 11 | #5110 | 3.4% | 16.9% | 46.6% | 5.5% | -1.4pp |
| 2023 | 22 | 7 | #5294 | 4.2% | 18.5% | 20.3% | 4.4% | -6.2pp |
| 2024 | 36 | 35 | #3753 | 8.2% | 25.3% | 13.0% | 0.9% | -4.9pp |
| 2025 | 39 | 41 | #3372 | 9.8% | 27.6% | 13.1% | 0.8% | -0.5pp |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 12 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 7.7% | 13.3% | +5.6pp |
| Male | 7.6% | 12.5% | +4.9pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.5% | 11.2% | +5.7pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 16.7% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 12.5% | 12.6% | +0.1pp |
| English Learners | 4.7% | 10.0% | +5.3pp |
| Homeless | 17.3% | 11.8% | -5.5pp |
| Military-Connected | 0.0% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 8.5% | 12.8% | +4.3pp |
| All Students | 7.7% | 12.8% | +5.1pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 18.2% | — |
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