Summary:
The 12 elementary schools in ZIP code 92243 serve different grade spans, including K–6 and K–8, so their all-grades results are useful for a broad overview but not perfectly like-for-like. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average proficiency was 44% in ELA, 33% in math and 27% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. Science shows the largest average gap from the state, at 9 percentage points, and results vary widely among schools. The most important finding is that schools in this area do not share one performance profile: results range from well above the state to substantially below it.
McCabe Elementary leads all three subjects, with 59% in ELA, 49% in math and 45% in science—9, 11 and 9 points above state results, respectively. Sunflower Elementary is the ELA runner-up at 56%, while Lincoln Elementary ranks second in math at 44%. Desert Garden Elementary is second in all-grades science at 43% and leads fifth-grade science at 43%, versus 35% statewide. At the lower end, Margaret Hedrick Elementary has the lowest ELA and math results, at 30% and 23%; Booker T. Washington Elementary has the lowest science result, 9%—27 points below the state.
Average school results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: by 2 points in ELA, 2 in math and 5 in science, bringing the average closer to state results in each subject. Progress was uneven: McKinley Elementary declined in all three subjects, including 13 points in science, while Desert Garden’s science result rose 23 points. SchoolDigger ranks McCabe in the 67th statewide percentile; Meadows Elementary is at the 22nd and Booker T. Washington at the 23rd. Other measures do not sort schools neatly by results: Meadows has the lowest reported student-teacher ratio, 18.5, yet is below the state in all three subjects. As context, Lincoln reported 89% free/reduced lunch eligible and McCabe 42% in school year 2024–2025; these figures are observations, not explanations of achievement.
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