Summary:
Paramount Unified includes 18 schools—11 elementary, four middle and three high schools—serving families in the Paramount area. On average, the schools’ 2025–26 all-grades proficiency rates were 40% in ELA, 28% in math and 25% in science, compared with statewide rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. Results also varied widely: the school-to-school ranges were 65 points in ELA, 42 in math and 57 in science. The most important finding is that the area average fell below the state in all three subjects, while school results differed sharply.
Odyssey STEM Academy stands out across subjects: it had 81% proficiency in ELA, 41% in math and 64% in science—32, 2 and 28 points above the state, respectively. It also had a 99% graduation rate, compared with 88% statewide. Jefferson Elementary led math at 43%, 5 points above the state, while Los Cerritos reached 40%, 2 points above. Paramount High led the other schools in ELA at 54%, though its math rate was 19%. At the low end, Buena Vista High had the lowest results in all three subjects: 17% in ELA, 2% in math and 7% in science.
Over one year, the 18-school averages fell from 41% to 40% in ELA, while rising from 26% to 28% in math and 23% to 25% in science; the math gap to the state narrowed, but ELA and science moved farther behind. SchoolDigger’s average statewide percentile ranking also slipped from 40 to 39, though individual paths differed: Los Cerritos moved from 28 to 53 to 52, while Odyssey went from 84 to 65 to 89. Grade-level results can tell a different story from school averages: Hollydale was below the state overall in ELA but above it in fifth grade. All schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–25, ranging from 88% to 98%; Odyssey and Buena Vista had similar reported shares despite very different outcomes, so these measures and school size or student–teacher ratios do not sort results into a simple pattern.
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