Summary:
Zip code 90227 has one listed school, Rosecrans Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade in Compton Unified, with 459 students. In 2025–26, its all-grade math results were essentially even with California’s, while ELA was 3 percentage points below the state and science was 10 points below. The most important finding is that those overall results mask a sharp grade-level divide, with fifth grade strong and some middle-grade results far below state levels.
Because Rosecrans is the only school in the ZIP code, there are no other local schools to rank above or below it. Within the school, fifth grade stands out: 65% were proficient in ELA, 16 points above the state, and 54% in math, 17 points above. Some middle-grade results were much weaker: sixth-grade ELA was 27%, 21 points below the state; eighth-grade math was 18%, 18 points below; and eighth-grade science was 16%, 20 points below. Across all grades, science remains the largest gap with California: 26% proficient compared with 36% statewide.
Results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in all three subjects: Rosecrans rose 10 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 11 in science. Its gap with the state narrowed by 9 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 8 in science, though science still trails. SchoolDigger’s ranking also rose, from the 34th percentile in 2024–25 to the 62nd percentile in 2025–26; its latest report lists 2,198 of 5,804 schools and 3 stars. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 24.9 in 2024–25, and 93% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 6% in 2025–26, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 18%.
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