Best Public Schools in Zip Code 90011

Schools in ZIP code 90011 include 30 schools—20 elementary, four middle and six high schools—serving students from primary grades through high school; 25 have 2025–26 test scores, three have scores only from 2024–25, and two primary centers have none. The current-score school averages are 30% in elementary ELA, 31% in elementary math and 18% in elementary science; high-school averages are 36%, 15% and 14%, respectively. Middle-school averages are 32%, 22% and 19%. The most important finding for families is that scores vary widely between schools, so area averages can conceal major differences in the school a child attends.

Among elementary schools, Twentieth Street Elementary leads in ELA and math, at 48% and 45%, while Ascot Avenue Elementary leads science at 34%. Trinity Street Elementary has the lowest elementary ELA and math scores, 14% and 17%, and Forty-Ninth Street Elementary has the lowest science score, 5%. The high-school spread is especially large: Santee Education Complex leads ELA at 58%, while Nava College Preparatory Academy leads math and science at 24% and 26%. Frida Kahlo High is lowest in all three, at 0%, 6% and 4%. The highest-to-lowest gaps reach 33 percentage points in elementary ELA and 58 points in high-school ELA.

Across all 25 schools with two years of scores, the average rose by 0 percentage points in ELA, 3 points in math and 2 points in science; the comparable statewide changes were 0, 1 and 3 points. SchoolDigger ranks Twentieth Street at the 57th percentile, Ascot Avenue at the 54th and Nava College Preparatory Academy at the 51st. School size and reported income measures do not neatly match scores: Twentieth Street has a 22.6 student-teacher ratio and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, while Hooper Avenue Elementary has a 19.6 ratio and 98% free/reduced lunch eligible that year, yet their ELA scores are 48% and 23%. These figures offer context, not an explanation for score differences.