Summary:
ZIP code 92532 has seven schools across three districts: five labeled elementary, one middle and one high school; four elementary schools serve K–5, while Julia Lee Performing Arts Academy serves K–8. In 2025–26, the schools’ average proficiency was 51% in ELA, 38% in math and 36% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The most important takeaway is that results vary substantially by school, while the area overall is close to state levels rather than clearly ahead across subjects.
Cottonwood Canyon Elementary is the strongest all-around performer: it led ELA at 61% and math at 55%, beating the other six schools’ averages by 12 and 19 points, respectively, and state results by about 12 and 16 points. Herk Bouris Elementary led science at 46%, 11 points above the other schools’ average and 10 above the state. At the lower end, Julia Lee had the lowest ELA and science results, at 38% and 24%; Temescal Canyon High had the lowest math result, 26%. These comparisons show why a single schoolwide label can miss meaningful differences by subject.
Science improved most: the seven-school average rose 6 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while the state rose 3 points. ELA and math averages each rose by less than a point, failing to keep pace with state changes. SchoolDigger ranks place Cottonwood at the 76th statewide percentile, Herk Bouris at the 71st and Julia Lee at the 39th; these are rankings, not proficiency rates. Grade-level results can also change the picture: Julia Lee’s fifth-grade ELA was 61%, above the state’s 49%, despite its low all-grades results. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 54% at Cottonwood and Tuscany Hills, 61% at Herk Bouris and 81% at Earl Warren; reported student-teacher ratios were 23.0, 22.2, 23.3 and 16.3, respectively. These measures do not form a simple pattern with test results.
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