Summary:
ZIP code 90059 has two public high schools serving grades 9–12: King/Drew Medical Magnet High (1,381 students) and Alliance Cindy and Bill Simon Technology Academy High (474 students). In their comparable 2024–25 results, King/Drew scored above the state in all three subjects, while Alliance was below the state in all three. The most important finding is the substantial difference between the schools: King/Drew’s proficiency rates were 28–31 percentage points higher than Alliance’s, depending on the subject.
King/Drew stands out at the top of the 2024–25 comparison, with 75% proficient in ELA, 39% in math and 46% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 37% and 33%. Alliance scored 46% in ELA, 11% in math and 16% in science—slightly below the state in ELA and well below it in math and science. The schools’ gaps were 29 points in ELA, 28 in math and 31 in science. Averaging the two schools equally, the group reached 60% in ELA, 25% in math and 31% in science; that is 11 points above the state in ELA, but 12 points below in math and 2 points below in science.
King/Drew’s newer results continued upward: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, its all-grades scores rose by 1 point in ELA, 5 in math and 4 in science, and it remained above the state in every subject. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for King/Drew climbed from 82 to 85 between 2023–24 and 2025–26; Alliance’s fell from 44 to 35 between 2022–23 and 2024–25. The schools had similar reported context measures in 2024–25: student-teacher ratios were 19.4 and 19.5, and free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 90% and 93%, respectively. Alliance has no 2025–26 test results here, and the ranking years differ, so neither provides a same-year comparison of both schools’ latest results.
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