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Student Group Report · 2026

 

 

VALCO region · CAASPP results

From the big picture to the student

Everything on this site is public, aggregate data: the region, six counties, and every district inside them. It tells you how you compare and where to look next. It cannot tell you which students, which classrooms, or what to do on Monday. That part lives in your own student-level system.

Six levels of the same question

The Grid Report, Trend View, Five-by-Five, and County Trends cover the top three. The bottom three are where instruction, intervention, and MTSS happen.

You are here · this site
RegionVALCO combined vs. California. Four years, every indicator, all student groups.
CountyFresno, Kern, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura. County Trends tab.
DistrictEvery LEA, with the Differentiated Assistance screen. Grid Report and Trend View.
Where the work happens · your student-level system
SchoolSite-level results, chronic absence, suspensions, by grade and group.
ClassroomRoster views, interim and local assessment results, week-over-week attendance.
StudentNames, scores, interventions, and whether they are working.

What this data can and can't tell you

It can

  • Show how your district compares with neighbors, the county, the region, and the state.
  • Show multi-year direction for every reported student group.
  • Flag the student groups that put a district in, or near, Differentiated Assistance.
  • Give boards and cabinets one shared, public picture to start a conversation from.

Source: CDE research files, reproduced without change. Same numbers as the state's own reports.

It can't

  • Name a student, a teacher, or a classroom. Groups under 11 students are suppressed by the state.
  • Show current-year progress. Results arrive months after testing.
  • Show attendance, behavior, interim assessments, or interventions.
  • Tell you why a number moved, or what to change.

Those gaps are exactly what a student-level system fills. See the county list below for where yours lives.

What you can do this week, with this data alone

No sign-in needed. Three moves for three audiences, each one possible from the Grid Report or Trend View.

District leader
  1. Open your district's Five-by-Five and find the one student group furthest below the county line.
  2. Check Trend View: is that group moving with the district, or on its own path?
  3. Bring that one chart to your next cabinet meeting and ask for the school-level version.
County office staff
  1. Sort the Grid Report by Math distance from proficiency and note the three districts with the steepest drops.
  2. Compare their DA strips. Shared student groups suggest a shared support plan.
  3. Print the full report for each and attach it to your next check-in invitation.
Board member
  1. Find your district on the Trend View and read the multi-year direction, not the single year.
  2. Ask one question at the next meeting: "Which schools account for most of this change?"
  3. Ask staff to show you the answer in your student-level system, not on this site.

What it looks like at a school site

Lamont Elementary School District leaders on how they put KiDS to work at the site level: what principals open, what they look at together, and how it changes the conversation about students. From KETN's Data Not DATA, episode 1.

Data Not DATA, Episode 1 · KETNEdward Gonzalez, Ed.D. and Kathy Gonzales with Lupita Duhart and Susana Cardenas of Lamont ESDOpen on YouTube

Where the student-level view lives in your county

Each card says which system holds school, classroom, and student data, and who to contact.

Kern
Kern Integrated Data System (KiDS)
KiDS
Who has it
Kern districts onboarded to KiDS. Sign in with your district account.
What you get
District Snapshot, Early Warning, Student Success (high school), Human Capital and Operations. Drill from district to school to classroom to student.
Contact
KiDS, Kern County Superintendent of Schools. Support page on kernkids.org.
Sign in to KiDSNot on KiDS yet?
Other VALCO counties
Fresno, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura
Local systems
Who has it
Your county office or your district's own data team. The student-level view lives in the student information system, assessment platform, or county data warehouse each county already uses.
What to ask for
The roster behind a cell on this site: the student group, the indicator, and the year. Attendance, behavior, interim scores, and program flags are there too, and that is where the "why" is.
Contact
Your county office's accountability or data lead. Tell us what your county uses and we will add it here: support@kernkids.org.

Kern figures are scoped to Kern districts on KiDS, not every Kern district. Other counties: this site does not reach into local systems; your county office knows which one holds the student-level view.

Performance across state priority areas

Change arrow compares to the prior year shown.

Notes & methodology

Window. The report covers the four most recent published Dashboard years and moves forward on its own when a new year is published. It opens with the three most recent showing and the earliest collapsed to a narrow column; click that column (or “Show all years”) to add it, and click any year to hide it. Change, the cards and “Patterns at a glance” follow the years showing. Each indicator gets a table when the district has at least one reportable value for it in that window, and each student group gets a row when it has at least one.

Values and dot colors are the Grid Report's. Every number and dot is the same figure and color the Grid Report tab gives that cell for that year: CDE's Dashboard performance color (Status × Change), or grey where CDE assigned none. ELA/Math come from CDE's Academic Indicator files, and ELPI, Chronic Absenteeism, Suspension Rate, Science, Graduation Rate and CCI from CDE's own Dashboard indicator files. A handful of ELA/Math cells, where CDE published no row, are computed from CDE's CAASPP research files by CDE's method; below 50 tested these carry no color and are marked ●, as on the Grid.

Change is a multi-year difference, not CDE's Change. CDE's Dashboard Change compares one year with the year before. The Change column here is the latest year minus the first year showing (the two years are printed under the column heading), taken from the one-decimal values shown, so it will not match the change printed on the Grid Report; hide a year to compare a narrower window. Where the first year is not displayed, it falls back to the next year with a comparable value and carries an asterisk. It is never calculated across a change of scale (Science before and after Science Points), between an official and a computed figure, or across CDE's 2026 redefinition of CCI and of ELPI for Long-Term English Learners (2025 is shown as CDE restated it on the new definition; 2024 and earlier are on the old one, so those Change values start from 2025 and carry an asterisk).

Science. CDE reported Science as Distance from Standard (now called Distance from Proficiency) before 2025 and set no performance levels for it. The 2024 value shown is CDE's own restatement in Science Points from its 2025 file, so it sits on the same scale as 2025, but it has no color.

Patterns at a glance is written by fixed rules from the tables on this page, the same rules for every district. “Moved the wrong way” lists a group and indicator only when the change is worse by more than the width of CDE's “Maintained” band for that indicator (for example, 3 points for ELA and Math, 0.4 points for Chronic Absenteeism). That band is used only as a size threshold; it is not a CDE Change level. “Red” is CDE's performance color for the latest year. DA determination is not calculated.

Status (current year value) by Change (vs. 2024), official CDE classification for every group. Dot color & position = official Status/Change tier for this indicator; cell shading = CDE's Dashboard colour for that Status × Change cell.

Status, change and number of students by student group for the selected indicator and year. The grid to the right plots the same groups.
Student GroupStatusChangeNumber of students
Current Status
Change from Prior Year (2025→2026)
Notes & methodology

What this is. CDE's Dashboard assigns every student group's box color from a "Five-by-Five" grid: 5 Status levels (VL–VH) × 5 Change levels (Decreased Significantly – Increased Significantly). This view lays that grid out directly — one cell per Status/Change combination, for whichever year is selected above — instead of a table, using the same values already on the Grid Report tab (see cde.ca.gov's Five-by-Five reference).

Orientation. Rows and columns are always arranged so better is up and to the right, regardless of indicator. For ELA, Math, ELPI & Science (higher = better), Very High sits at top and Increased Significantly at right. For Suspension Rate & Chronic Absenteeism (lower = better), Very Low sits at top and Decreased Significantly at right.

Colors. Each dot's color is this dashboard's own official tier/five-by-five color for that group (the same color used on the Grid Report tab) — CDE's own indicator-file color wherever CDE published one, or this indicator's own CDE cut points applied to the value for computed ELA/Math cells. A grey dot with a star (★) means CDE assigned no color because the group didn't meet its minimum n-size, matching the Grid Report tab. The shading of each cell is CDE's official Dashboard color for that Status × Change combination, read from CDE's own indicator files; a hatched cell is one no district lands in (or that CDE marks N/A).

Years without a full grid. 2022 is the first year in this data, so there's no prior year to calculate Change from — Status values are listed in the table but no dots are plotted.

Suppressed groups. A group with fewer than 11 tested students has no value at all for that indicator (CDE suppresses it) and isn't plotted — it's listed in the table on the left with an asterisk and its n only, same as the Grid Report tab.

Foster Youth ELA/Math. 2022–2026 ELA/Math for Foster Youth now come straight from CDE's own official calculation (CDE's Academic Indicator download files, 2022–2026) — the full district-wide group total in every case, not a single grade.

English Learner ELA/Math. CDE's official Dashboard defines "English Learner" for ELA/Math as students who were EL at any point that year, plus anyone reclassified fluent English proficient (RFEP) within the past four years. CDE's own Academic Indicator files (2022–2025) already apply that definition, so those years are correct as shown.