Summary:
ZIP code 90723 has nine K–5 elementary schools, all in Paramount Unified. In 2025–26, their average proficiency rates were 37% in ELA, 33% in math and 23% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important finding is that schools in this area averaged below state results in all three subjects, with the largest gaps in science and ELA: 13 and 12 percentage points.
Results vary considerably by subject and school. Wesley Gaines led ELA at 44%, while Theodore Roosevelt had the lowest rate at 30%, a 14-point spread. Jefferson Elementary led math at 43%; Harry Wirtz Elementary was lowest at 26%, a 17-point gap. Los Cerritos led science at 35%, while Major Lynn Mokler was lowest at 13%, a 22-point difference. Los Cerritos also had strong results in ELA (42%) and math (40%), but was below the state in ELA and science; Jefferson was the only school above the state in math besides Los Cerritos.
Recent changes were mixed: the nine-school average fell 2 points in ELA and rose 1 point in both math and science. ELA improved at only two schools; math rose at six, led by Jefferson (+7 points), while science fell at six even as Los Cerritos climbed 21 points. SchoolDigger’s relative percentile ranking rose 24 points for Los Cerritos and 10 for Mokler from 2023–24 to 2025–26, but fell 14 for Gaines and 7 for Abraham Lincoln, showing that rank changes do not necessarily match every subject’s score trend. As context, all nine schools reported the same measure—free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL), school year 2024–25—with rates from 91% to 98%; student–teacher ratios ranged from 19.2:1 at Jefferson to 23.6:1 at Mark Keppel. These figures do not line up neatly with academic results.
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