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Enrollment
670
Middle
DISTRICT 742 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAS VIRGENES UNIFIED·NCES 062100002528
Arthur E. Wright Middle
4029 North Las Virgenes Rd., Calabasas, CA 91302 · (818) 880-4614 · Los Angeles County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL670 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of California public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
24.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.3:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
195 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 251 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 221 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 198 | 30% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
76.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.9pp since 2014
Math
71.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +14.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 40.1% | 36.8% | 14.4% | 8.7% |
| Math | 48.6% | 22.8% | 18.2% | 10.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.9% | 71.4% |
| 2023-24 | 75.8% | 68.0% |
| 2022-23 | 74.1% | 63.9% |
| 2021-22 | 73.4% | 60.6% |
| 2020-21 | 73.0% | 58.1% |
| 2018-19 | 73.8% | 63.7% |
| 2017-18 | 74.4% | 65.8% |
| 2016-17 | 77.3% | 60.3% |
| 2015-16 | 77.0% | 58.0% |
| 2014-15 | 71.0% | 57.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Arthur E. Wright Middle
Arthur E. Wright Middle's state test result (72.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur E. Wright Middle this school | 670 | 29.1% | 72.9% |
| Beverly Vista Middle Beverly Hills | 687 | 30.4% | 62.1% |
| Spring View Middle Rocklin | 780 | 31.0% | 55.0% |
| Isaac L. Sowers Middle Huntington Beach | 771 | 25.0% | 66.1% |
| Lindero Canyon Middle Agoura | 795 | 28.8% | 61.8% |
| Las Flores Middle Las Flores | 593 | 22.3% | 73.5% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Arthur E. Wright Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #96 of 1,224 | #14 of 248 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #85 of 1,227 ▲ 9 | #9 of 248 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #102 of 1,227 ▲ 3 | #17 of 248 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.2pp | #176 of 1,214 | #62 of 247 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 670 | #649 of 1,377 | #147 of 317 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.1:1 | #1,094 of 1,279 | #237 of 301 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #490 of 1,278 | #67 of 301 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.1% | #1,158 of 1,329 | #289 of 312 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #317 of 930 | #94 of 213 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
670
-46 (-6%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 1,228
Student : Teacher
24.1:1
was 25.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 670 | 27.8 | 24.1:1 | 29% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 27 | 23.7:1 | 28% (180) |
| 2022-23 | 621 | 27.8 | 22.4:1 | 26% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 716 | 28 | 25.6:1 | 17% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 846 | 38.1 | 22.2:1 | 15% (125) |
| 2015-16 | 875 | 34 | 25.7:1 | 11% (97) |
| 2010-11 | 867 | N/A | N/A | 9% (82) |
| 2000-01 | 1,708 | 64 | 26.7:1 | 4% (75) |
| 1990-91 | 1,228 | 48 | 25.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arthur E. Wright Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (846 to 670); teachers down 27% (38.1 to 27.8).
About Arthur E. Wright Middle
Arthur E. Wright Middle is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Calabasas, California, one of the schools in Las Virgenes Unified. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 670 students.
Arthur E. Wright Middle is one of 15 schools in Las Virgenes Unified, which enrolls 9,754 students in total.
White students are 62% of those enrolled at Arthur E. Wright Middle. Other reported shares: 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 9% Asian. That compares with about 31% White among all Los Angeles County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
Staffing at Arthur E. Wright Middle comes to 27.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 24.1:1. Middle schools in California average 20.7:1, 3.4 fewer students per teacher than here. Arthur E. Wright Middle counts 29% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
Arthur E. Wright Middle earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 98% of California public middle schools.
Schools in California with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 62.5%. Arthur E. Wright Middle scores 72.9%.
In the surrounding county, Los Angeles County, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Arthur E. Wright Middle, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Las Virgenes Independent, is less than a tenth of a mile. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Arthur E. Wright Middle is 2nd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Arthur E. Wright Middle is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 670, from 716 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 25.6 to 24.1 over 4 years.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Las Virgenes Unified
- Agoura HighHigh · 1,709 students
- Calabasas HighHigh · 1,707 students
- Lindero Canyon MiddleMiddle · 795 students
- Alice C. Stelle MiddleMiddle · 760 students
- Chaparral ElementaryElementary · 614 students
- Round Meadow ElementaryElementary · 513 students
Other schools in Calabasas
- Calabasas HighHigh · 1,707 students
- Alice C. Stelle MiddleMiddle · 760 students
- Chaparral ElementaryElementary · 614 students
- Round Meadow ElementaryElementary · 513 students
- Bay Laurel ElementaryElementary · 480 students
- Lupin Hill ElementaryElementary · 464 students
Nearby schools
- Las Virgenes Independent0.0 mi · 19
- Lupin Hill Elementary2.0 mi · 464
- Round Meadow Elementary2.6 mi · 513
- Agoura High2.9 mi · 1,709
- Bay Laurel Elementary3.0 mi · 480
- Sumac Elementary3.5 mi · 360
Frequently asked questions
About Arthur E. Wright MiddleHow large is Arthur E. Wright Middle?
Arthur E. Wright Middle enrolls approximately 670 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Arthur E. Wright Middle serve?
Arthur E. Wright Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Arthur E. Wright Middle?
Approximately 24.1:1 students per teacher at Arthur E. Wright Middle.
How diverse is Arthur E. Wright Middle?
Arthur E. Wright Middle reports a student body of 62% White, 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 9% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Arthur E. Wright Middle?
Arthur E. Wright Middle is overseen by Las Virgenes Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.