Summary:
ZIP code 90503 has one high school, West High, serving grades 9–12 with 1,775 students. In 2025–2026, West’s all-grades proficiency was above California’s in English, math and science, but it did not outperform Torrance Unified in every subject. The most important distinction is that math is West’s clearest relative weakness: its result was 11 percentage points below the district’s, despite remaining above the state’s.
Since West is the only school in the ZIP code, it leads the local list by default, and there is no other school to compare at the bottom. Its strongest state comparisons were English, at 73% versus 49% statewide, and science, at 59% versus 36%; math was 51% versus 38%. Against the district, West was 5 points higher in English and 3 points higher in science, but 11 points lower in math. Other outcomes were also favorable against the state: graduation was 96.6% at West versus 87.9% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 7% versus 18%.
Recent test-score movement and SchoolDigger’s latest ranking suggest West’s state advantages have narrowed, particularly in math. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math proficiency fell 9 percentage points and English fell 5, while science rose 2; over the same period, the state-relative math gap narrowed from 23 to 12 points. SchoolDigger ranked West 236th of 2,137 California high schools in 2025–2026, down 90 places from the prior year, with its percentile moving from 93rd to 89th and its rating from 5 to 4 stars. West reported a 24.7 student–teacher ratio and 25% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures provide context, but the available data do not show how they relate to results.
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