Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 90301

Zip code 90301 has two Inglewood middle schools serving grades 6–8: Century Community Charter and Grace Hopper STEM Academy, with 534 students combined. In 2024–2025, Century had 441 students and Grace Hopper had 93. The most important distinction is consistent across subjects: Century’s proficiency results were higher in ELA, math and science.

Century was the stronger performer, with 50% proficient in ELA, 29% in math and 25% in science, compared with Grace Hopper’s 29%, 14% and 3%. Century led by 20 percentage points in ELA, 15 in math and 23 in science. Century’s ELA result was about 1 point above the state rate, while its math and science results were 9 and 8 points below. Grace Hopper was below state results in all three subjects—by 19 points in ELA, 24 in math and 30 in science. SchoolDigger ranked Century 1,244th of 2,761 California middle schools, at the 55th percentile with 3 stars; Grace Hopper ranked 2,346th, at the 15th percentile with 1 star.

SchoolDigger’s rankings improved for both schools: Century moved from the 45th percentile in 2022–2023 to the 55th in 2024–2025, while Grace Hopper moved from the 6th to the 15th; these are ranking changes, not evidence that test scores rose. Grade-level results show a notable exception within Century’s overall pattern: its grade 6 ELA result was below the state benchmark, while grade 7 and 8 ELA were above it; its math results were below the state in all grades, though grade 7 was closest. Century also had a higher student-teacher ratio (21.3 versus 16.4) and a higher share reported as free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 (81% versus 56%), alongside stronger scores; these are observations, not explanations. Chronic absenteeism was 12% at Century and 25% at Grace Hopper in 2024–2025, but the supplied state figure is from 2025–2026 and is not a like-year comparison.