Summary:
ZIP code 90720 has five elementary schools, all serving kindergarten through grade 5 in Los Alamitos Unified, a district SchoolDigger ranks 48th of 968 California districts and gives five stars. In 2025–2026, the schools’ unweighted average proficiency was 80% in English language arts (ELA), 78% in math and 70% in science, compared with state averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. Every school was above the state in all three subjects, but the most important finding for families is that results still differ substantially from school to school.
Jack L. Weaver Elementary led in every subject, with 90% proficiency in ELA, 92% in math and 80% in science; Richard Henry Lee Elementary ranked second in each, at 86%, 89% and 75%. At the other end, Los Alamitos Elementary scored 67% in ELA, 61% in math and 51% in science. Even those results exceeded state averages by 18, 23 and 15 percentage points, respectively. The gap between Weaver and Los Alamitos was 23 points in ELA, 31 in math and 28 in science.
Across the five schools, average science proficiency rose 7 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math increased 1 point and ELA slipped 1 point. Los Alamitos was the only school to decline in all three subjects, while Francis Hopkinson Elementary had the largest science gain, up 14 points. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide ranks also vary widely: Weaver was 22nd of 5,804 schools, while Los Alamitos was 995th; Lee improved from 138th to 44th between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. As context, the schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 ranging from 10% at Weaver to 32% at Los Alamitos; these are observations, not explanations of achievement. Grade-level results can also differ: Rossmoor Elementary’s ELA proficiency rose from 62% in grade 3 to 84% in grade 5, while Los Alamitos’ math fell from 76% to 50% across those grades.
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