SchoolScope

A California district roll-up: average Scope Score and absenteeism across the district plus every scored school ranked by level. Match by district name.

The K-12 feeder path for a school: which schools students typically arrive from, where they go next, and — for elementary/middle schools — the endpoint high school with its graduation and college-going outcomes. Boundary-based (the district's own published boundaries where we have them, else NCES SABS 2015-16), shown alongside scores, never inside them.

The full SchoolScope profile for one school by slug: verdict and archetype, Scope Score with band and percentile per level, CAASPP exceeded/met split, cohort growth (school-by-grade aggregates two years apart, in SBAC scale-score points, reported as a 0-100 index centred on the state average), climate (absenteeism, suspension, ELPAC), equity gaps by student group, teacher stability, and — for high schools — graduation, college destinations, UC admissions history, AP courses, and IB programmes. Also answers "is this school improving?" with a year-over-year table of statewide percentile and the underlying rates; the Scope Score is excluded there because it is normalised within each year and is not comparable across them. For public schools it also returns the profile's own `answer` (one sentence about all students, each subject against California's rate for the same grades), up to three selected `takeaways` (each with figures, comparisons, a question where one applies, and a generated receipt naming source, year, grades, population, n and how the comparison was built), and `studentGroups` (every group by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability with 30+ students tested in each subject, against the same group in the same grades in the district and statewide). Current data year 2026.

Schools serving a similar student population to a given school — same level, comparable free/reduced-lunch share and enrollment size — with the subject's standing among them. This is the fair comparison: a raw ranking largely reflects who enrolls, so a school's position against demographic peers says far more about the school itself than its statewide rank does. Public schools only.

Compare 2-4 public schools side by side: band, Scope Score, exceeded/met split, cohort growth (aggregate school-by-grade cohorts across the grade span, as a 0-100 index centred on the state average), climate. A school with no cohort comparison reports no growth figure rather than a substitute — treat that as missing evidence, not flat growth. Schools are only comparable within the same level (elementary/middle/high are separate rankings). Private schools cannot be compared — they have no state testing data.

Find California schools four ways, whichever fits the question: free text over school/city/district names (`query`), inside a zip code (`zip`), within a radius of a place or coordinate (`near`), or the top-ranked schools at one level (`level` alone). Returns band, Scope Score, archetype and profile URL for each match. Private schools are flagged and never ranked — they have no state testing data. Supply exactly one of query, zip or near; or none plus a level for a top list. Set `tk: true` to limit any of these searches to schools with active transitional kindergarten (TK) enrollment — a filter that composes with query, zip, near and level, and every result carries a `hasTk` field.

Return the schools the authenticated user has saved on SchoolScope. Requires the `watchlist:read` OAuth scope.