Summary:
Paramount, California, has four middle schools serving grades 6–8, with enrollments from 517 to 735; across the schools, 2025–2026 proficiency averaged 42% in English language arts (ELA), 24% in math and 27% in science, compared with state averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. The clearest area-wide challenge is math, where the average was 14 percentage points below the state.
No one school leads in every subject: Alondra Middle led ELA at 46% and science at 33%, while Frank J. Zamboni led math at 28%. Those leaders were still below the state in all-grades results: Alondra by 4 points in ELA and 3 in science, and Zamboni by 11 in math. The lowest results varied by subject: Zamboni had the lowest ELA rate at 39%, Paramount Park Middle the lowest math rate at 22%, and Leona Jackson the lowest science rate at 22%. Grade-level results reveal exceptions: Alondra’s eighth-grade ELA rate was 53%, above the state’s 49%, and Zamboni’s seventh-grade math rate was 41%, above the state’s 38%.
Recent changes were mixed: the four-school ELA average fell 3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math rose 2 points, and science was essentially unchanged. All four schools’ ELA results declined and math results improved; science rose at Alondra and Zamboni but fell at Paramount Park and Leona Jackson. SchoolDigger gives all four schools two stars; their statewide percentiles all fell in the latest year, by 2 points at Alondra, 3 at Zamboni, 9 at Paramount Park and 6 at Leona Jackson. As context, all four report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, with shares from 93% to 97%; these figures do not explain differences in results. The data cover only two school years, so they cannot establish a long-term trend.
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