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Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy

Oregon House, CA · Grades TK-12 · 184 students · Yuba County Office of Education

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45% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 38% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictYuba County Office of Education
PrincipalLouise Miller
GradesTK-12
Enrollment184 students

Math

38%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

45%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

184

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

8%

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: 18%2022: 6%2023: 31%2024: 31%2025: 38%2019: 18%2022: 26%2023: 28%2024: 20%2025: 45%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 18%2022: 6%2023: 31%2024: 31%2025: 38%2019: 18%2022: 26%2023: 28%2024: 20%2025: 45%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201918%18%
20226%26%
202331%28%
202431%20%
202538%45%

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 8th to the 49th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 2200 elementary schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “41% proficient” and call it done. Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy 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.

The headline number: 8.4% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.

As a charter, Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

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

Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy scores 36 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 49th 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 · 8th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 1002022 · 7th percentile · Scope Score 16 of 1002023 · 28th percentile · Scope Score 24 of 1002024 · 34th percentile · Scope Score 31 of 1002025 · 49th percentile · Scope Score 36 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 318%25%37%29%71%
Grade 4—0%15%29%14%
Grade 5—28%20%14%30%
Grade 6—21%27%26%33%
Grade 7—6%32%20%19%
Grade 8——21%20%35%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 318%0%47%64%82%
Grade 4—0%15%29%36%
Grade 5—11%15%10%13%
Grade 6—21%0%0%14%
Grade 7—0%16%27%5%
Grade 8——5%20%29%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

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

ELA33% met or exceeded
Exceeded 10%Met 23%Nearly Met 28%Not Met 39%
Math27% met or exceeded
Exceeded 8%Met 18%Nearly Met 26%Not Met 48%
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 school3618%41%—8.4%3.8%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3639
% Exceeded18%21%
% Met+41%43%
Growth——
Absence8.4%17.9%
Suspension3.8%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 9th 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: −16 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 8th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.8th pctile · −16 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −15 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 11th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.11th pctile · −15 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 Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy in Oregon House, 33.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 10.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 22.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (26.5% Math proficient); White students (26.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 17.0 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 83 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 30% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 30%, district —, state 43%30%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 30%, district 5%, state 32%30% · +0 vs school
MaleMale: this school 16%, district 3%, state 42%16% · −14 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 21%, district 5%, state 56%21% · −9 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 17%, district 11%, state 44%17% · −13 vs school

7 of 12 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 47.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school.

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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
English Only77 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −17 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 77 students.−17 pts · −20 vs typical
Low-income students61 studentsLow-income students, reading: −20 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 61 students.−20 pts · −20 vs typical
White44 studentsWhite, reading: −15 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 44 students.−15 pts · −20 vs typical
Math
English Only78 studentsEnglish Only, math: −15 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 78 students.−15 pts · −16 vs typical
Low-income students62 studentsLow-income students, math: −17 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 62 students.−17 pts · −16 vs typical
White45 studentsWhite, math: −9 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 45 students.−9 pts · −14 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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 14 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher14 · district 15
Teaching staff15 teachers
Avg. experience10.1 years
Fully credentialed59%
First-year teachers33%
PrincipalLouise Miller
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Teacher salary schedule$55,396 – $109,326
Principal salary$121,524 – $121,524
Superintendent salary$185,959

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended more, than the state average.

3.8% of students were suspended, versus 1.6% statewide — the data can't say why.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 8.4%, district 8.4%, state 17.9%8.4% · −9.5pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 3.8%, district —, state 1.6%3.8% · +2.2pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2019–20

Its district spends $43,136 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $43,136, CA average $14,491$43,136 · district average
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 45%Instruction support 13%Student services 19%Administration 17%Buildings & maintenance 4%Other 2%

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$43,136 per pupil
2019$45,012 per pupil
2018$41,084 per pupil
2017$31,768 per pupil
2016$31,599 per pupil
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 184 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), 27% 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 Latino28.3% · district 40.8% · CA 56.1%
White60.3% · district 42.3% · CA 19.9%
Black0.5% · district 2.3% · CA 4.8%
Other10.9% · district 12.2% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch75.0% · CA 64%
Median income$78K · CA $85K
Median home value$377K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+24% · CA 35%
ZIP population1,110
Median age43 years

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

Culture & philosophy

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

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Yuba Environmental Science Charter AcademyCharterDeveloping18%41%School being viewed
Dobbins ElementaryPublicNeeds Support0%5%2.1 mi
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Is Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy a good elementary school?
Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy has a Scope Score of 36 out of 100, placing it in the 49th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #2,891 statewide. 17.9% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 3.5 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 Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 41.0% of students at Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 17.9% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 23.1% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 17.9% 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. 122 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy rank in California?
Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy ranks #2,891 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 49th 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 Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy?
8.4% of students at Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 3.8%. 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 Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy compare to other schools in Oregon House?
Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy scores 36/100 (49th 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 184 students. Use the schools in Oregon House page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy in Oregon House, 33.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 10.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 22.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (26.5% Math proficient); White students (26.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 17.0 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 83 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

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What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard17.9%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded41.0%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism8.4%17.9%5%
Suspension rate3.8%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-54.8pp-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

Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy: reading the evidence

Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy posts 41% meeting the standard and 17.9% 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.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
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Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy is ranked #2,891 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard17.9%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded41.0%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism8.4%17.9%5%
Suspension rate3.8%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-54.8pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 47 · 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 66 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 3.4pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 32 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.9pp higher vs 2024
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 31735%35%24%6%71%+27
Grade 4147%7%36%50%14%−30
Grade 53010%20%17%53%30%−18
Grade 62110%24%24%43%33%−13
Grade 7210%19%38%43%19%−29
Grade 8170%35%35%29%35%−11
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31741%41%12%6%82%+37
Grade 4147%29%57%7%36%−6
Grade 5307%7%20%67%13%−22
Grade 6210%14%29%57%14%−20
Grade 7210%5%29%67%5%−29
Grade 8170%29%18%53%29%−3

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
Schoolwide454%22%53%20%

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 Disadvantaged8333.7%+23−4
White4126.8%+16−35
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
Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy ←—3617.9%41.0%−54.8pp—3.8%
Dobbins Elementary2.1 mi150.0%4.5%——2.0%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
2019198#50560.0%18.2%11.2%3.3%—
2022167#53083.2%10.7%8.7%5.8%+7.0pp
20232428#40776.0%24.9%5.3%3.0%-24.6pp
20243134#375310.7%29.0%4.9%1.8%-34.5pp
20253649#289117.9%41.0%8.4%3.8%-54.8pp
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
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
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−1679Moderate−1580Moderate
English Only−1777not categorised−1578not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−2061Moderate−1762Moderate
White−1544Moderate−945Moderate
Hispanic or Latino−1028Moderate−1828Moderate
Students with Disabilities−2118Minimal−1619Moderate

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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