Summary:
Zip code 90403 has one listed middle school, Lincoln Middle, serving grades 6–8 in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified district; it enrolls 914 students. There is no local school-to-school comparison, so families are looking at one school’s results against district and state figures. The clearest finding is that in 2025–2026 Lincoln was well above the state in all three subjects: proficiency was 79% in ELA, 68% in math and 65% in science, with state advantages of 30, 29 and 29 percentage points, respectively.
Lincoln Middle is both the top and bottom school in this one-school list, and its results also exceeded district levels in every subject. Its all-grades scores were 79% in ELA versus 74% districtwide, 68% in math versus 61%, and 65% in science versus 59%—leads of 6 percentage points in each subject. SchoolDigger ranked Lincoln 141st of 2,703 schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 95th percentile with five stars. The ranking reflects its position among schools, rather than a direct measure of how much its scores changed over time.
Scores rose in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with the biggest gain in science: Lincoln improved by 1 percentage point in ELA, 5 in math and 12 in science. Its advantage over the state widened by 1, 4 and 8 points, respectively; science also shifted from 2 points below the district to 6 points above it. Attendance is a notable positive context: chronic absenteeism was 8% in 2025–2026, compared with 15% districtwide and 18% statewide. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 20.6, and 30% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures describe the school but do not establish why its results are strong. Because only one school is listed, there is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison.
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