City View Charter School

Hillsboro, OR · Grades K–8 · Charter

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

Charter

Decoded Rank

All factors combined

Top 15% decoded

#67 of 462

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA schools

★★ Outperforming Expectations

#182 in OR

Achievement Rank

Raw test performance

Top 30% achievement

#110 of 462

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA schools

#154 in OR

places from achievement to Decoded Rank

Raw scores are strong here, and the school still performs above expected for its context.

Data confidence:High513 students tested 8 years97% participation

Confidence is computed from sample size, year coverage, and participation rate. Higher confidence means the rank shift is stable across years and not driven by a single small cohort.

  • Tested students: total students with valid scores across all reported years.
  • Years of data: number of school years included. More years smooths year-to-year noise.
  • Participation: share of enrolled students who took the assessment. Low participation can bias scores.

What's driving this rank

Decoded Rank: #67 of 462

in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA schools

Raw test scores rank this school #110, but after accounting for context, students here outperform what the data would predict. The Decoded Rank places it at #67.

Each component below is scored on a 0–100 within-metro scale. A qualitative band summarizes where the school lands.

  • Above averagePerforms above what its context predictsCounts for 35% of the rank

    After accounting for income and demographics, does this school beat what the data would predict?

  • Above averageStudents gain ground year over yearCounts for 30% of the rank

    Are kids at this school learning faster than typical for the metro?

  • About averageEquity within the schoolCounts for 15% of the rank

    Are students clustered at similar levels, or split between top and bottom?

  • StrongDirection over recent yearsCounts for 10% of the rank

    Is this school's Decoded Rank trending up or down across the years we have data for?

  • StrongMost students were testedCounts for 10% of the rank

    Was the rank computed against a representative share of the school's students?

Show the numbersFor the methodology-curious

Each component is converted to a 0–100 within-metro percentile (100 = top of the metro). "Contribution" is the percentile-points the component adds to (or subtracts from) the metro median before the schools are re-ranked into the composite.

Per-component contributions to this school's Decoded Rank composite. Weight is the share each component carries; percentile is the school's within-metro score on that component.
ComponentWeightPercentileContribution
Performs above what its context predicts 35%74+8.5
Students gain ground year over year 30%68+5.5
Equity within the school 15%41-1.3
Direction over recent years 10%100+5.0
Most students were tested 10%97+4.7

How the Decoded Rank composite is computed

Why trust this?
  • Public data sources
  • Context-adjusted model
  • Confidence shown
  • Methodology published

This score uses state assessment data, NCES enrollment data, and Census ACS 5-year neighborhood data. The Decoded Rank adjusts for school context — student demographics, ELL/SPED service rates, and the socioeconomic profile of the surrounding tract — and shows how the school performs relative to expectation, not in absolute terms.

SchoolDecoder is one signal, not a verdict. Decoded Rank is a context-adjusted residual, not a causal claim about teaching quality. See full methodology →

All Rankings

How this school ranks across the metro, state, and among demographic peers.

ScopeAchievementDecodedShift
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA (462 schools)#110#67
OR (882 schools)#154#182
Among similar schools (6 peers)#3#3

Resource context

School inputs, not ranking points

These fields describe the school and surrounding neighborhood. They help readers interpret the page, but this is not a dollar-by-dollar or ratio-by-ratio scorecard and the fields here are not components of the Decoded Rank.

Enrollment
409
Free/reduced-price lunch
15.2%
Student-teacher ratio
21.5:1
Locale
City, midsize
School type
Charter school
Enrollment model
Charter enrollment
Neighborhood median income
$95,192ACS tract proxy
Neighborhood poverty
0.1%ACS tract proxy
SES index
78.3
Assessment data year
2025
CCD year
2024
ACS vintage
2020-2024

Within Hillsboro SD 1J: #2 of 32.Top quintile in district. View district

Performance Spread

How students are distributed across the four state-assessment proficiency levels — L1: below standard, L2: approaching, L3: meets (proficient), L4: exceeds. This describes the shape of results at the school, not their height.

Two distinct groups are visible: a strong cluster at the top and a struggling cluster at the bottom.

  • Level 1 — Below standard21%
  • Level 2 — Approaching standard23%
  • Level 3 — Meets standard (proficient)30%
  • Level 4 — Exceeds standard25%

Why this matters. A bimodal distribution often reflects two student populations served side-by-side (for example a gifted or honors track alongside a general-population cohort). Aggregate scores can hide this. Look at the school's program mix when comparing.

Performance Spread measures how evenly students are distributed across the L1..L4 proficiency ladder, treating the levels as an ordered scale (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4) and weighting each by its student share. A school where most students cluster at one level has a TIGHT spread; a school split between the bottom and top has a WIDE or BIMODAL spread. Bimodal fires only when BOTH tails are non-trivial AND the middle is relatively hollow (pct_L1 ≥ 15, pct_L4 ≥ 25, pct_L2 + pct_L3 ≤ 60). It describes shape — NOT how high the school's scores are. Methodology

Nearby Schools

Sorted by distance. Both rank columns shown so you can compare quickly.

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Brookwood Elementary School#318#255Medium
W L Henry Elementary School#420#165High
Imlay Elementary School#136#197High
Eastwood Elementary School#451#303High
Century High School Rankings coming soon.

Similar Schools

Schools with comparable demographics, income, and size. Both rank columns shown for direct comparison.

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Portland Village School#168#246Medium
Oak Creek Elementary School#45#40High
Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School#152#287High
Otto Petersen Elementary School#184#142Medium
Middleton Elementary School#36#28High

Historical Ranks

Year-by-year decoded and achievement ranks. Pandemic-affected years are excluded — we don't interpolate scores across the gap.

YearAchievementDecodedShift
2025#110#67
2024#138#130
2023#170#130

Note: assessment transitions (where a state changes its test) are footnoted on the methodology page; trends are not computed across breakpoints.

Trajectory

2023: percentile 582024: percentile 622025: percentile 74

Trending up

Based on 3 years (2023–2025).

Slope: +8.0 pct/yr (95% CI -23.9 to 39.9)

Low confidence

How this works: we fit a linear trend across the available years of Decoded percentile, then bucket the slope into a direction. Wide confidence intervals (uncertain trends) collapse to Holding steady. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Cohort Progression

Kids who started 3rd grade here in 2015 lost 72 proficiency points by 7th grade — gaining while the metro median is declining.

Cohort-to-cohort variance is high — interpret the headline cautiously.

Learning rate: +1.8 proficiency points/yr (95% CI -4.7 to 8.3)

Medium confidence

Cohort 20152016201720182019202320242025 Slope
ELA · started 8th in 2015
G8
ELA · started 7th in 2015
G7
263
G8
273
+10.2
ELA · started 6th in 2015
G6
238
G7
210
G8
190
-23.7
ELA · started 5th in 2015
G5
200
G6
232
G7
213
G8
270
+19.1
ELA · started 4th in 2015
G4
288
G5
243
G6
243
G7
183
G8
250
-13.5
ELA · started 3rd in 2015
G3
291
G4
287
G5
268
G6
286
G7
218
-14.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2016
G3
268
G4
186
G5
195
G6
196
-20.8
ELA · started 3rd in 2017
G3
261
G4
250
G5
232
-14.4
ELA · started 3rd in 2018
G3
230
G4
211
G8
259
+7.5
ELA · started 3rd in 2019
G3
250
G7
272
G8
247
+1.1
ELA · started 6th in 2023
G6
276
G7
278
G8
296
+9.9
ELA · started 5th in 2023
G5
254
G6
268
G7
278
+12.1
ELA · started 4th in 2023
G4
231
G5
238
G6
286
+27.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2023
G3
213
G4
238
G5
264
+25.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2024
G3
256
G4
246
-10.4
ELA · started 3rd in 2025
G3
240
Math · started 8th in 2015
G8
Math · started 7th in 2015
G7
279
G8
254
-25.1
Math · started 6th in 2015
G6
267
G7
200
G8
180
-43.3
Math · started 5th in 2015
G5
187
G6
213
G7
188
G8
200
+1.5
Math · started 4th in 2015
G4
217
G5
230
G6
222
G7
167
G8
170
-15.7
Math · started 3rd in 2015
G3
259
G4
254
G5
248
G6
238
G7
191
-15.2
Math · started 3rd in 2016
G3
209
G4
167
G5
154
G6
179
-10.2
Math · started 3rd in 2017
G3
217
G4
214
G5
236
+9.4
Math · started 3rd in 2018
G3
178
G4
174
G8
212
+7.5
Math · started 3rd in 2019
G3
250
G7
257
G8
258
+1.5
Math · started 6th in 2023
G6
283
G7
283
G8
309
+12.7
Math · started 5th in 2023
G5
250
G6
254
G7
256
+3.1
Math · started 4th in 2023
G4
209
G5
200
G6
259
+24.9
Math · started 3rd in 2023
G3
221
G4
243
G5
243
+11.1
Math · started 3rd in 2024
G3
239
G4
244
+5.2
Math · started 3rd in 2025
G3
231

How this works: we follow each grade-cohort across years through the school (3rd graders in 2023 are 4th graders in 2024, etc.) and fit a linear slope on a 100–400 proficiency-points scale built from the state assessment's four levels (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4, weighted by student share). This is the same construction Stanford SEDA uses (edopportunity.org/methods); it's not student-level tracking — we measure the school's cohort, not individuals. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Evidence & technical detailClick to expand

School Alpha

School Alpha is the residual between actual and expected performance once school context is held constant. It is a context-adjusted estimate, not a causal claim about teaching quality.

Shrunk Alpha (95% CI)
+0.26 (95% CI: +0.21 to +0.31)

SES index components

SES method
Blended SES index (ACS + FRL)
SES index value
78.3
FRL %
15.2%
ELL %
SPED %
Tract median income (ACS 5-year)
$95,192
Tract poverty rate
0.1%
Tract % bachelor's+
30.7%

What "Decoded Rank" means

Decoded Rank converts School Alpha — the context-adjusted residual — into a parent-facing rank within the metro pool. A higher Decoded Rank than Achievement Rank means the school's raw scores understate its performance once neighborhood and school context are held constant. The reverse means raw scores overstate it. The rank is one signal, not a verdict.

Data & sources

Assessment data
2024–25 school year
NCES CCD vintage
2024
Census ACS 5-year vintage
2020-2024
Last updated
May 29, 2026
Methodology version
0.2.0

Cross-state metro note: This metro spans state lines. Both states use Smarter Balanced assessments with a common scale for grades 3–8 ELA/math. Context-adjusted ranks are computed within each state's testing context, then aggregated across the metro.

SchoolDecoder publishes context-adjusted residuals, not causal estimates. Decoded Rank is one signal — not a verdict on teaching quality. Read about limitations →