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Marshall Fundamental · Pasadena, CA
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CAASPP Smarter Balanced, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % met or exceeded standard.
English Language Arts
51.8%
State avg 49.1%
District avg 48.2%
County avg 51.3%
+3.8pp since 2014-15
Math
36.8%
State avg 37.7%
District avg 36.3%
County avg 40.5%
+4.8pp since 2014-15

What this means: On the CAASPP Smarter Balanced, California's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMath
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 647.1%48.6%23137.5%37.3%229
Grade 750.0%49.9%26238.4%36.4%257
Grade 844.4%48.0%22633.3%34.3%225
Grade 1167.7%57.3%20237.7%30.9%200

Performance levels, SY 2024-25

Share of tested students at each CAASPP Smarter Balanced level.

English Language Arts

GradeStandard ExceededStandard MetStandard Nearly MetStandard Not Met
All grades23.3%28.5%18.1%30.1%
Grade 625.1%22.0%19.4%33.5%
Grade 720.4%29.6%18.9%31.1%
Grade 815.7%28.7%17.0%38.6%
Grade 1133.3%34.3%16.9%15.4%

Math

GradeStandard ExceededStandard MetStandard Nearly MetStandard Not Met
All grades18.3%18.5%20.4%42.8%
Grade 621.0%16.6%22.3%40.2%
Grade 718.0%20.4%22.0%39.6%
Grade 816.9%16.4%17.3%49.3%
Grade 1117.1%20.6%19.6%42.7%

Each tested student counts in exactly one level, so each row adds to about 100%. The headline met or exceeded standard rate is the sum of the top two levels.

10-year history

All grades, all students. Marshall Fundamental   California avg

English Language Arts

44482014-1548552015-1649512016-1750522017-1851532018-1949532020-2147482021-2247492022-2347482023-2449522024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2551.8%48.2%51.3%49.1%
SY 2023-2448.4%45.9%48.8%47.1%
SY 2022-2348.8%45.2%47.9%46.7%
SY 2021-2247.9%45.1%47.9%47.1%
SY 2020-2153.2%59.7%49.3%49.0%
SY 2018-1952.9%47.3%51.1%51.1%
SY 2017-1852.3%46.1%49.6%49.9%
SY 2016-1750.9%44.8%47.7%48.6%
SY 2015-1655.0%44.0%46.9%48.1%
SY 2014-1548.0%38.7%42.0%44.0%

Math

34322014-1537372015-1638392016-1739372017-1840392018-1934522020-2133322021-2235312022-2336332023-2438372024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2536.8%36.3%40.5%37.7%
SY 2023-2432.9%35.2%37.8%35.6%
SY 2022-2331.4%34.0%36.0%34.6%
SY 2021-2232.1%32.9%34.1%33.4%
SY 2020-2152.3%42.3%32.6%33.7%
SY 2018-1939.0%36.8%40.2%39.8%
SY 2017-1837.4%36.2%38.5%38.7%
SY 2016-1738.5%35.3%36.8%37.6%
SY 2015-1637.0%33.4%35.3%36.7%
SY 2014-1532.0%30.9%31.5%33.6%

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How to read these scores

What is CAASPP Smarter Balanced?
CAASPP (the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress) is California's annual statewide test. Public-school students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 take the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in English Language Arts and Math each spring.
What does "% met or exceeded standard" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores were rated "Standard Met" or "Standard Exceeded" on the test. Those are the top two of four performance levels, and they signal the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 51.8% mean for English Language Arts at Marshall Fundamental?
It means about 51.8 percent of students tested at Marshall Fundamental performed at grade level or above on the CAASPP Smarter Balanced English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for California that year was 49.1%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in California, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
California Department of Education, CAASPP Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment. School-level "All Students" subgroup. Scores suppressed for groups under 11 students.
How often is it updated?
CAASPP Smarter Balanced is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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