Summary:
High schools in ZIP code 90805 consist of one school, Jordan High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 2,272 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency rates were 36% in English language arts, 10% in math, and 11% in science, compared with statewide rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. The most important finding is that Jordan is below the state in all three subjects, with the largest gap in math: 28 percentage points.
Within Jordan, ELA is the strongest subject and math is the weakest: ELA proficiency is 36%, about 26 points higher than math at 10%; science is 11%. There is no basis for naming a leading or trailing school within the ZIP code because Jordan is the only school listed. Graduation is a relative strength: Jordan’s rate is 90%, 2 points above the state’s 88%, although 1 point below the district’s 91%. By contrast, chronic absenteeism is 32%, compared with 18% statewide and 25% in the Long Beach Unified district. Jordan’s 8% dropout rate matches the state’s 8%.
Recent test-score changes are mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Jordan’s ELA proficiency rose from 32% to 36%, science increased from 8% to 11%, and math fell from 14% to 10%. The ELA gap with the state narrowed by 4 points, while the math gap widened by 5 points and the science gap by 1 point. SchoolDigger gave Jordan one star in each of the three years shown; its statewide percentile moved from the 28th in 2023–2024 to the 29th in 2024–2025 and the 27th in 2025–2026. For context, the 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 21.7, and 74% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; these figures describe the school and do not explain its results.
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