Summary:
ZIP code 90732 has four schools: three K–5 elementary schools and one grade-12 special education center. In 2025–26, the elementary schools’ unweighted average proficiency was 60% in ELA, 57% in mathematics, and 46% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The clearest area-wide finding is that all three elementary schools exceeded the state in all three subjects, with mathematics the strongest relative result: the average was 19 points above the state.
South Shores/CSUDH Visual and Performing Arts led ELA at 62% and mathematics at 60%, topping the next school in each subject by 3 and 2 points, respectively. Park Western Place Elementary led science at 51%, one point ahead of Seventh Street Elementary Arts Integration Magnet at 50%. South Shores was at 36.1% in science, nearly level with the state’s 36.0% and 15 points below Park Western. SchoolDigger’s overall statewide rankings put Park Western highest among the three, at the 78th percentile, followed by Seventh Street at the 75th and South Shores at the 74th.
Results shifted in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: the schools’ average science score rose 7 points, while ELA fell 1 point and mathematics fell 2. Seventh Street had the sharpest improvement, gaining 23 points in science to reach 50%; its SchoolDigger ranking also rose from the 56th to the 75th percentile between 2023–24 and 2025–26. As context, the reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure for 2024–25 was 49% at South Shores, 67% at Park Western, and 74% at Seventh Street; Seventh Street also had higher chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 (27%, versus 16% at each of the other two). These are school-level observations, not explanations for achievement differences. Ernest P. Willenberg Special Education Center has no supplied current test scores, so it cannot be compared academically with the K–5 schools.
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