Summary:
ZIP code 90270 has six schools—four elementary schools and two high schools—serving elementary and high-school grades. In 2025–2026, their average all-grades results were about 49% in English language arts (ELA), 39% in math and 31% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. Results vary considerably from school to school, and science is the clearest area-wide shortfall. The most important takeaway is that families will find markedly different achievement patterns across these schools, rather than one consistent profile for the area.
Maywood Center for Enriched Studies leads all six schools in ELA at 67%, 18 points above the state; Maywood Elementary leads the elementary schools in all three subjects, with 56% in ELA, 52% in math and 41% in science. At the other end, Fishburn Avenue Elementary has the lowest ELA and science results, at 36% and 22%; Maywood Academy High has the lowest all-grades math and science, at 12% and 18%. The two high schools’ shared grade 11 results also show a substantial gap: Maywood Center scored 76% in ELA and 34% in math, versus Maywood Academy’s 48% and 12%. Because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades results are not perfectly comparable; the high-school comparison uses shared grade 11 results.
Science results improved at every school from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the six-school average rose about 6 points; the average math result rose about 3 points, while ELA was nearly unchanged. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking rose from the 69th to the 77th percentile for Maywood Center and from the 36th to the 40th for Fishburn over the reported three-year period, while Maywood Academy moved down from the 36th to the 34th percentile. Other factors provide context, not explanations: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 96% at Maywood Elementary and 94% at Fishburn, despite their different results. The high schools have similar student-teacher ratios—18.7:1 at Maywood Center and 18.4:1 at Maywood Academy—but sharply different grade 11 outcomes; in 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 13% and 41%, respectively.
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