Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 92606 include five schools serving 1,489 students, from kindergarten through grade 12: three elementary schools, one high school and one alternative school. Their schoolwide results cover different grade mixes, so the most useful comparisons are between schools or students in the same grade. The clearest concern is Creekside High: its 2025–2026 proficiency was just 16% in ELA and 25% in math, and 84% of students were chronically absent.
Irvine Unified School District Virtual Academy and College Park Elementary lead in different subjects. Virtual Academy had the highest reported All Grades ELA result, 77%, and science result, 76%, and the top SchoolDigger rank among these schools, at the 91st percentile. College Park led math at 70%, about 2 percentage points ahead of Virtual Academy. Alternative Education–San Joaquin High was also strong in ELA at 75%. By contrast, Creekside’s ELA result was 52 points below the next-lowest school, Plaza Vista (67%); its math was 38 points below the next-lowest, San Joaquin (63%). Creekside’s results were also below state levels in both subjects.
Changes over time favor San Joaquin: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its scores rose 11 points in ELA, 20 in math and 17 in science. Other schools had a more mixed pattern: College Park’s math rose 3 points while its ELA and science fell, and Virtual Academy’s ELA fell 6 points while math and science edged up. SchoolDigger ranks offer another point of comparison: Plaza Vista was at the 86th percentile and College Park at the 90th, while Virtual Academy was at the 91st. For 2024–2025, the free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 19% at College Park, 20% at Plaza Vista and 21% at Virtual Academy; it was 36% at San Joaquin and 63% at Creekside. Their student-teacher ratios were 26.1 at College Park, 25.5 at Plaza Vista, 19.4 at Virtual Academy, 8.0 at San Joaquin and 8.3 at Creekside—context for comparing schools, not an explanation of their results.
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