Summary:
Zip code 91203 has one listed school, Columbus Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 488 students. With no other listed schools in the area, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the clearest point of reference is California. In 2025–26, Columbus was below the state in all three all-grade proficiency results, with its largest gap in English language arts (ELA).
Columbus is both the top- and bottom-ranked school in this one-school group, so that distinction is not a meaningful comparison. Compared with California in 2025–26, Columbus had 37% proficiency in ELA versus 49% statewide, a 13-point gap; in math, 33% versus 38%, a 5-point gap; and in science, 26% versus 36%, a 10-point gap. Its results were also below Glendale Unified by 24 points in ELA, 22 in math and 22 in science. Grade 4 stands out as a low point: ELA was 24% and math 25%, while grade 3 was closer to state results, with gaps of 2 points in ELA and 4 in math.
Results improved most in science, while ELA and math made little progress against the state. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, science proficiency at Columbus rose from 19% to 26%, and its state gap narrowed from 13 to 10 points; the ELA gap widened from 12 to 13 points and the math gap from 4 to 5. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 38th percentile in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, down from the 55th percentile in 2023–24; its rating also fell from 3 stars to 2 and stayed there. Chronic absenteeism was 12% at Columbus versus 18% statewide in 2025–26. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 23.2 in 2024–25, and 64.8% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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