Summary:
Zip code 92602 has one school in this list: Orchard Hills, an elementary school serving K–8 with 1,373 students. With no other school in the list, families can compare it with the district and state, but not with nearby schools here. The main finding is that Orchard Hills’ 2025–2026 proficiency was well above both benchmarks in all three reported subjects, with its largest advantage in math.
Orchard Hills is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this one-school list, so there is no meaningful school-to-school ranking. Its all-grades proficiency was 84% in English language arts (ELA), 82% in math, and 69% in science. Compared with Tustin Unified, those results were higher by 20, 25, and 19 percentage points, respectively; compared with the state, they were higher by 34, 43, and 33 points. Math stands out most: third-grade math reached 91%, while fifth-grade ELA was 86% and fifth-grade science was 77%. SchoolDigger ranked Orchard Hills 62nd of 5,804 schools, in the 99th percentile, and gave it five stars for 2025–2026.
Results remain high, but the recent direction was less favorable, especially in science. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA was nearly flat at 84% in both years, math slipped from 83% to 82%, and science fell from 78% to 69%; the school’s lead over the state in science narrowed by 12 points. Within the school, math also varies more by grade than the other reported subjects: it ranged from 77% in grade 8 to 91% in grade 3, compared with an 8-point ELA spread and an 11-point science spread. Chronic absenteeism was 6%, below the district’s 11% and the state’s 18%. As additional context, Orchard Hills had a 27.5 student-teacher ratio and 25% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures do not explain the test results. SchoolDigger’s rank moved from 102nd in 2023–2024 to 48th in 2024–2025 and 62nd in 2025–2026, while its percentile remained in the 98th–99th range.
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