Summary:
ZIP code 90602 has three elementary schools: Evergreen Elementary and Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy serve K–5, while Whittier Independent Study serves K–8. Their 2025–2026 results show strengths in different subjects, rather than one school leading across the board. The biggest difference is in math: Whittier Independent Study scored 53% proficient, 21 percentage points above Lydia Jackson’s 32%, while the state was at 38%.
Evergreen led in all-grades ELA, with 57% proficient—7 points above the state—while Lydia Jackson had the lowest result at 44%, 5 points below the state. In math, Whittier Independent Study was highest at 53%, 14 points above the state; Lydia Jackson was lowest at 32%. Lydia Jackson led in science at 47%, 11 points above the state, while Evergreen was lowest at 36%, about level with the state. These differences also appear in grade 5: Evergreen had the strongest ELA result at 71%, and Lydia Jackson led science at 47%.
Across the three schools, unweighted average proficiency rose from 41% to 50% in ELA, 37% to 40% in math, and 28% to 42% in science between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; Evergreen’s math score was an exception, falling 5 points. SchoolDigger gives Evergreen a 61st-percentile rank and three stars, and Lydia Jackson a 52nd-percentile rank and three stars in 2025–2026; Whittier’s supplied rank is older, from 2022–2023. The schools also differ in student–teacher ratios: 25.1 at Evergreen, 21.3 at Lydia Jackson, and 33.5 at Whittier. Each reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 89% at Evergreen, 89% at Lydia Jackson, and 76% at Whittier. Whittier’s 47% chronic absenteeism, compared with 24% at Lydia Jackson and 13% at Evergreen, is an important counterpoint to its strong proficiency results. Whittier has 67 students, and the schools serve different grade spans, so all-grades comparisons have limits.
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