Summary:
ZIP code 90040 has one listed high school, Kirby Dorothy Camp, serving grades 7–12 with 64 students, so there are no local school-to-school comparisons. The most important finding is that its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency was far below the state: ELA was 6% versus 49%, a 43-point gap, and math was 0% versus 38%, a 38-point gap.
There is no separate local top or bottom school: Kirby Dorothy Camp is the only high school in the list. Its largest state gap was in 11th-grade ELA, where proficiency was 6% compared with 57% statewide, 52 points lower; 11th-grade math was 0% versus 32%, 32 points lower. Completion figures also lagged state results: the graduation rate was 75% versus 88%, while the dropout rate was 25% versus 8%. Chronic absenteeism was a contrasting result, at 4% compared with 18% statewide.
Recent proficiency trends did not show the school closing the gap. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, its ELA proficiency fell from 11% to 6%, while the state’s moved up by less than 1 point; the ELA gap widened by 6 points. School math remained at 0%, and its state gap widened by 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from the 0th percentile in 2023–24 to the 12th in 2024–25, then fell to the 3rd percentile in 2025–26. As context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 8.7 in 2024–25, and 95% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. With only one school listed, these figures cannot be compared with local peers.
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