Summary:
ZIP code 90805 has 12 schools: eight listed as elementary, three middle schools and one high school. Eleven are in Long Beach Unified; Captain Raymond Collins is in Paramount Unified, and Powell Academy for Success serves kindergarten through eighth grade. The most important area-wide finding is that every school’s 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency results in ELA, math and science were below the state results.
McKinley Elementary leads the roster in all-grades ELA and math, with 45% and 38% proficient; it is ahead of the next-highest schools by 5 points in ELA and 1 point in math. Harte Elementary leads science at 27%, 2 points above McKinley, though still 9 points below the state’s 36%. At the other end, Collins has the lowest ELA result at 26%, while Jordan High has the lowest math and science results, at 10% and 11%. A grade-matched exception: McKinley’s fifth-grade ELA result is 51%, 2 points above the state’s 49%.
Results shifted unevenly from 2024–2025: the roster’s average ELA proficiency fell by 1 point, math was nearly flat, and science rose by 2 points, while the state improved in all three subjects. McKinley gained 4 points in ELA and 6 in science; its SchoolDigger statewide percentile ranking rose from 46 to 50, while Lindsey Academy rose from 28 to 36. School context does not neatly predict results: McKinley and Addams Elementary both had 85% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, but McKinley’s all-grades ELA was 14 points higher. Chronic absenteeism is another shared concern: all 12 schools exceeded the state’s 18% rate, averaging 31%.
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