Summary:
The 90017 middle-school list includes one school, John H. Liechty Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 748 students. In 2025–2026, 28% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 20% in math, and 17% in science; the comparable rates for Los Angeles Unified were 48%, 40%, and 32%. Liechty’s central challenge is that, despite recent improvement, its proficiency rates remain about 19 to 21 percentage points below California’s in every tested subject.
There is no school-to-school leader or trailer with just one school listed; within Liechty, 8th-grade results were strongest and 6th-grade results were lowest in both ELA and math. ELA proficiency rose from 23% in 6th grade to 32% in 8th, while math increased from 15% to 22%. Even in 8th grade, results were 18 points below California in ELA and 14 points below in math. Across all grades, ELA had the largest state gap at 21 points; math and science were about 19 points below the state.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with science making the biggest gain: up 7 percentage points, compared with 4 in ELA and 2 in math. The school’s gaps with California also narrowed in each subject, by 4 points in science, 3 in ELA, and 1 in math. SchoolDigger’s rating was 1 star in both years, while its percentile ranking rose from 15th to 19th; its listed rank improved from 2,334 of 2,761 to 2,187 of 2,703. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 16.8 in 2024–2025, and 58% of students were directly certified for free meals that year. Chronic absenteeism was 23% in 2025–2026, similar to the district’s 23% but above California’s 18%.
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