Best Public Schools in Zip Code 92264

ZIP code 92264 has three schools: Cielo Vista Charter serves kindergarten through grade 8, Cahuilla Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 5, and Desert Learning Academy serves kindergarten through grade 12. Enrollment ranges from 317 to 824. In 2025–2026, the simple average across the three schools was below the state in all-grades ELA (43% versus 49%), math (29% versus 38%), and science (22% versus 36%); science had the widest gap. The clearest overall finding is that school results vary substantially, and the group average trails the state in every subject.

Cielo Vista Charter is the all-grades standout, leading the other schools in all three subjects: 56% in ELA, 44% in math, and 30% in science. It is 7 percentage points above the state in ELA and 6 points above in math, but 6 points below in science. At the other end, Cahuilla Elementary has the lowest ELA and science results, at 31% and 18%—18 points below the state in each. Desert Learning Academy has the lowest math result, 19%, or 20 points below the state. Its ELA result, 43%, is higher than Cahuilla’s but below the state.

Recent movement is mixed: the group’s average math and science gaps with the state narrowed, while its ELA gap widened slightly. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the math average rose 2 points and the state rose 1; the gap narrowed from 10 to 9 points. The science average rose 5 points versus 3 statewide, narrowing the gap from 15 to 14 points. ELA averages rounded to 43% in both years, while the gap widened from 5 to 6 points. Grade-level results also offer exceptions: in fifth-grade ELA, Desert Learning Academy scored 59%, above Cielo Vista’s 57% and the state’s 49%. SchoolDigger ranked Cielo Vista at the 66th percentile in 2025–2026, unchanged from 2023–2024; Cahuilla was at the 22nd percentile, down from the 36th. All three reported free/reduced lunch eligible as their low-income measure for 2024–2025, at 90% to 93%; student-teacher ratios ranged from 15.5 to 20.1. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not perfectly comparable.