San Fernando, CA schools
San Fernando’s public schools score well above California’s averages: 54% of students are proficient in reading against 48.5% statewide, and 80% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.6%. Kids attend San Fernando Elementary or Morningside Elementary or O'Melveny Elementary through grade 5, then San Fernando Middle or San Fernando Institute of Applied Media and Cesar E. Chavez Lrng Acads-Acad of Scientific Explr (ASE) or Cesar E. Chavez Lrng Acads-Tech Prep Acad.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
San Fernando’s School Grade: B-
The public schools San Fernando’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 51% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on California’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of California only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in California with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where San Fernando kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
80% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #641 of 720 CA towns →
The district serving San Fernando
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near San Fernando
There’s no college in San Fernando, but 40 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Los Angeles Mission College in Los Angeles, 2 miles away.
30 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of San Fernando. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 12 schools in San Fernando
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.