Best Public Schools in Zip Code 92324

Schools in zip code 92324 include 14 schools—10 elementary, two middle, one conventional high school and one alternative school—serving students from elementary through high school; the central finding is that results vary substantially from school to school, rather than showing one consistent pattern across the area.

Colton High and Dr. Ernest Garcia Elementary lead the reported all-grades ELA results, at 51% and 51%, just above the state’s 49%. Georgia F. Morris Elementary stands out in math and science, with 45% and 39%, respectively—7 points and 3 points above state results. At the lower end, Alice Birney Elementary has the lowest all-grades math and science scores, at 13% and 10%; its results are 25 and 26 points below state levels. ELA is lowest at Washington High and Alice Birney, both around 22%. Grade-level comparisons can tell a different story: in 8th-grade ELA, William G. Jehue Middle scores 56%, compared with 25% at Colton Middle.

Across the 14 schools, average scores rose from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by 2 points in ELA, 1 point in math and 5 points in science, but gains were uneven: Morris improved 15 points in math and 16 in science, while Abraham Lincoln Elementary declined in all three subjects. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rank rose 13 points for Jehue and Morris over three years, while Lincoln’s fell 15 points. Every school reports free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25; shares range from 77% at Garcia to 93% at Colton Middle, and these figures are context, not an explanation for scores. Enrollment, grade spans and student-teacher ratios also differ, so schoolwide results are not perfectly like-for-like.