Summary:
ZIP code 90680 has one listed elementary school, Robert M. Pyles STEM Academy, serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 601 students, so there is no within-area school choice to compare in this list. The most important concern is fourth-grade math: in 2025–2026, 17% of students were proficient, 25 percentage points below the state and 24 points below the Magnolia Elementary district.
The school’s strongest subject relative to the state is science, though it remains below state results overall. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 33% in science, 32% in math, and 42% in ELA; compared with the state, those results were lower by 3, 7, and 7 percentage points, respectively. Science was the only subject above the district, by 1 point. Grade-level results show some brighter spots: sixth-grade ELA was 49%, 1 point above the state, and third-grade math was 45%, 2 points below the state. Fourth-grade ELA was also below the state, at 35% versus 46%.
Results moved in different directions over the two reported years: ELA fell 4 percentage points, while the state rose by less than 1; math was unchanged as the state gained 1 point; and science improved 6 points while the state rose 3, narrowing the school–state gap by 2 points. SchoolDigger’s rank percentile was 48 in 2023–2024, 50 in 2024–2025, and 46 in 2025–2026. As context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 23.5:1 in 2024–2025, and 87% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year; California is also identified as a statewide-free-meals state. These context figures do not establish what caused the test results.
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