Culver City Unified

The eight schools in Culver City Unified include five elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools, spanning elementary through high school in Culver City. In 2025–26, the unweighted average across the schools was 63% proficient in English language arts (ELA), 53% in math and 49% in science, compared with state averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important finding is that these averages mask sharp differences among schools, especially among the elementary schools and at Culver Park High.

Farragut Elementary led elementary ELA at 79%, while La Ballona Elementary was at 50—a 29-point gap. El Marino Elementary led elementary math at 77% and science at 70%; La Ballona had the lowest elementary results in those subjects, at 41% and 44%, respectively. La Ballona was still above the state average in all three subjects. At the high-school level, Culver City High scored 78% in ELA, 49% in math and 57% in science, compared with 14%, 0% and 0% at Culver Park. Culver Park’s 94% graduation rate is a counterpoint to its low test results: it exceeds the state’s 88%, though its 100% chronic absenteeism rate is far above the district’s 10%.

Recent changes were mixed: the eight-school average rose 3 points in ELA, 1 point in math and 3 points in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while individual schools moved in different directions. Culver City High gained 10 points in ELA, while La Ballona fell 4; in science, El Marino rose 27 points, while El Rincon Elementary fell 15. SchoolDigger gives El Marino and Farragut five stars; its percentile rankings rose 9 and 7 points, respectively, from 2023–24 to 2025–26, while La Ballona’s was 61 and Culver Park’s 4. As context, all five elementary schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25: 19% at El Marino and 21% at Farragut, versus 54% at La Ballona. These figures describe school differences, not what causes them.