Summary:
The 90621 middle-school list includes one school, Gordon H. Beatty Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 641 students. In 2025–26, the school’s results were above state proficiency rates in all three subjects and in all six reported grade-level ELA and math comparisons.
With no other listed middle schools, there is no within-zip top or bottom school to compare. Against the state, Gordon H. Beatty Middle had its largest all-grade advantage in science, 8 percentage points, followed by ELA at 5 points and math at 4 points. ELA was the school’s highest proficiency rate, at 54%, while science was strongest relative to the state, at 44% compared with 36%. The school was also above district rates in all three subjects: by 10 points in ELA, 5 in math and 12 in science, compared with Buena Park Elementary.
Recent results show a mixed trend: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the school’s ELA proficiency fell 2 percentage points and math fell 1, while science rose 6. Its science advantage over the state widened from 5 to 8 points, but its ELA and math leads narrowed. SchoolDigger placed the school in the 71st percentile in 2025–26, after the 70th percentile in 2023–24 and 74th in 2024–25; it received 4 stars in all three years. Other context includes a 21.9 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25 and 74% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 10% at the school, versus 14% in the district and 18% statewide. These figures provide context, not an explanation for test results.
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