Schools in Zip Code 90680

ZIP code 90680 has one listed school, Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 601 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 42% in ELA, 32% in math and 33% in science; the most important finding is that all three results were below California’s, with science closest at 3 points below the state.

There is no second local school to rank against it, so the clearest standouts are by subject and grade. Science is the school’s strongest all-grades result relative to the Magnolia Elementary district: the school was 1 point higher, though 3 points below the state. Math was 7 points below the state and 9 below the district, while ELA was 7 below the state and 6 below the district. Grade 4 math is the clearest low point: 17% proficient, 25 points below the state and 24 below the district. By contrast, grade 6 ELA was 1 point above the state, and grade 5 ELA was just 1 point below it.

Recent results are mixed, and the overall state comparison slipped: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell 4 points while the state edged up; math stayed at 32% as the state rose 1 point. Science improved 6 points, versus a 3-point state gain, narrowing the school’s science gap by 2 points. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and ranks it 3,127 of 5,804, in the 46th percentile, for 2025–2026. Context figures include a 23.5 student-teacher ratio and 87% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 19% in 2025–2026, compared with 16% in the district and 18% statewide.