Summary:
ZIP code 90230 has one middle school, Culver City Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 1,523 students. Its 2025–26 results are above state proficiency rates in ELA, math, and science, making its strongest area-wide takeaway a broad advantage over the state, though not over its district.
There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom school comparison because this list contains only one school. In 2025–26, Culver City Middle recorded proficiency of 64% in ELA, 52% in math, and 51% in science—about 15, 13, and 15 percentage points above state results, respectively. It was below Culver City Unified by about 4 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 4 in science. Grade 8 is a relative soft spot: ELA proficiency was 58% and math was 45%, compared with 67% and 56% in grade 7, although grade 8 still exceeded state results by about 9 points in each subject.
Results improved relative to the state in ELA and math from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while science moved the other way: the school’s state margin widened by about 2 points in ELA and 3 in math, but narrowed by about 3 in science. SchoolDigger gives Culver City Middle four stars; its statewide rank improved from 534th of 2,783 schools (81st percentile) in 2023–24 to 459th of 2,703 (83rd percentile) in 2025–26. These rankings are separate from the test-score trend. As context, the school reported a 20.7:1 student–teacher ratio and 40% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. These figures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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