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El Toro Health Science Academy
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About El Toro Health Science Academy
Set in Morgan Hill, California, El Toro Health Science Academy is a medium-sized primary school, operated by Morgan Hill Unified. It educates 456 students across grades K through 5.
Across the 13 schools in Morgan Hill Unified (7,810 students total), El Toro Health Science Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, El Toro Health Science Academy records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 26% White, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, El Toro Health Science Academy has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, El Toro Health Science Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 59.0%; actual is 41.6%, a gap of -17.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which El Toro Health Science Academy is one.
The closest other public school is Lewis H. Britton Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Toro Health Science Academy. On composite proficiency, El Toro Health Science Academy comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Five-year trend. El Toro Health Science Academy's enrollment has ticked up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 388 (now 456). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.
On the community side, members of the El Toro Health Science Academy community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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