Traweek Middle, West Covina CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Traweek Middle

Traweek Middle is a regular public middle school in the Covina-Valley Unified School District, serving grades six through eight in West Covina. It enrolls a mid-sized cohort from across the district's middle-school band. The campus sits in a suburban context: West Covina is a built-out, car-dependent San Gabriel Valley community where daily life centers on neighborhood parks, shopping corridors, and bus transit provided by Foothill Transit, headquartered locally.

The school's academic performance shows a clear division by subject. In English language arts, students across the three grades meet or approach proficiency at a rate roughly on par with or slightly above the lower half of districts countywide. Sixth-graders lead on this measure, with seventh and eighth graders showing comparably stable outcomes. Mathematics presents a steeper challenge. Proficiency rates across the grade band sit notably below state targets, with seventh grade particularly low. Science testing at grade eight shows proficiency rates in the low range. The school administered the California Science Test only at grade eight, and state testing does not extend to sixth and seventh grades in science. Overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places Traweek below the midpoint among Los Angeles County districts.

The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with meaningful Asian, white, and Black representation and a small number of multiracial and Native American students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating considerable economic need within the enrollment. The school does not publish enrollment counts for students with individualized education plans or English learners, so a parent may want to look into that directly with the school.

Traweek sits within a district that has invested in college pathways and bilingual education at the secondary level. Covina High School recently launched an Early College Pathway allowing students to earn up to roughly 42 transferable college credits by graduation at no cost, alongside an existing dual-enrollment program with Mt. San Antonio College. The district also operates two separate K-12 Dual Language Immersion tracks: one in Spanish (running from Manzanita Elementary through Las Palmas Middle to Northview High with a Seal of Biliteracy at graduation) and one in Mandarin (starting at Mesa Elementary, continuing through Sierra Vista Middle, and expanding to South Hills High). Neither pathway includes Traweek, which is a traditional non-immersion campus.

Housing in West Covina's zip code has held relatively stable in value, with rents rising modestly over the past year. The area carries a ratio of housing cost to income that is higher than the national median, making homeownership a significant family budget line. Schools in the city operate under two separate districts; Traweek is Covina-Valley's school, not West Covina Unified's.

For families considering this school, the key takeaway is that Traweek serves a diverse, economically stretched cohort in a stable suburban setting, with measurable academic gaps in mathematics that would warrant conversation with the school about intervention supports and classroom structure. Families drawn to the district's dual-language or early-college programs would pursue those at other school sites if those priorities rank high.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 42% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 724%

School 24% · District 33% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 31% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 646%

School 46% · District 51% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 740%

School 40% · District 52% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 848%

School 48% · District 49% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Science

Grade 831%

School 31% · District 28% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 57% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

This schoolCovina-Valley Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income66%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income34%Higher-income68%34 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income53%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income31%Higher-income58%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income19%Higher-income45%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income25%Higher-income29%5 pp gap