Summary:
Zip code 90746 has nine schools: six elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative school, serving a mix of grade levels. In the latest all-grades results, the eight schools with 2025–26 scores averaged 42% in English language arts (ELA), 41% in math, and 28% in science; compared with state results, the group was stronger in math but weaker in ELA and science. The most important finding is how uneven results are among schools, particularly in science: scores span 37 points, from 6% to 43%.
Towne Avenue Elementary has the strongest balanced all-grades profile: it leads in ELA at 49% and science at 43%, and its 46% in math is less than a point behind math leader Leapwood Avenue Elementary. Towne is essentially at the state ELA result and exceeds the state in math and science by 7 points each. Leapwood’s math score is 8 points above the state, though its ELA and science are below state results. At the other end, Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet has the lowest ELA score, 35%, and science score, 6%; its science result is 30 points below the state. Annalee Avenue Elementary has the lowest math score, 35%.
Across the same eight schools, average math rose 4 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while ELA was nearly unchanged; science rose 4 points but remained below the state. Grade-specific results can shift the picture: Ralph Bunche Elementary reached 89% in 7th-grade math, 52 points above the state, and reported 5% chronic absenteeism, compared with 18% statewide. Virtual Academy of the Arts & Entertainment had strong 11th-grade scores—57% in math and 49% in science—but chronic absenteeism was 62%. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 30 to 52 for Leapwood between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Towne’s rose from 57 to 64. Reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares (2024–25) ranged from 72% at Leapwood to 90% at Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle; student-teacher ratios ranged from 16.1 at Curtiss to 24.2 at Bunche.
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