Summary:
Zip code 90265 has one high school, Malibu High, serving grades 9–12 with 387 students. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was 71% in English language arts (ELA), 50% in science, and 44% in math; it also reported 100% graduation and 0% dropout. Chronic absenteeism, at 25%, is a concern compared with the district and state. The most important finding is that the school is above state proficiency in all three subjects but below its district in all three, especially in math.
Because Malibu is the only school in the ZIP code list, there is no local top or bottom school to compare. Against state results in 2025–2026, Malibu High had its strongest advantage in ELA, where it was 22 percentage points higher; it was 14 points higher in science and 6 points higher in math. Compared with Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, however, the school was 2 points lower in ELA, 9 points lower in science, and 17 points lower in math. Graduation was 3 points above the district and 12 above the state, while dropout was lower than both. These results show why state comparisons alone do not capture the school’s relative standing in its district.
Test results improved in two of the three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 4 percentage points and science rose 1, while math fell 1. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down over the listed years, from the 90th percentile (rank 223 of 2,159) in 2023–2024 to the 83rd percentile (rank 353 of 2,137) in 2025–2026. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 14.4 in 2024–2025, and 21% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch that year. Attendance is another point for families to consider: chronic absenteeism was 25%, compared with 15% districtwide and 18% statewide.
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