Best Public Schools in Zip Code 92620

Zip code 92620 has 12 schools: nine elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, including a K–8 immersion academy. The results cover 2025–26 and 2024–25, with grade-level results for 2025–26. The clearest overall finding is that every school’s published all-grades scores were above the corresponding California rate, although results vary considerably between local schools—especially in elementary science.

Santiago Hills Elementary led the eight K–6 schools in ELA and math, at 86% and 84%; Canyon View Elementary was close behind, at 81% in both. Brywood Elementary led K–6 science at 75%. At the lower end, Northwood Elementary had the group’s lowest ELA and math scores, 67% and 64%, while Eastwood Elementary had the lowest science score, 49%. Even these results exceeded state rates. SchoolDigger ranks both Santiago Hills and Irvine Chinese Immersion Academy in the 98th percentile among elementary schools; the academy’s K–8 span makes direct all-grades comparisons less like-for-like, and it reported 88% math and 89% science. Among the middle schools, Jeffrey Trail Middle topped Sierra Vista Middle in all three subjects, with the biggest difference in science.

Recent changes are mixed: K–6 average scores were essentially unchanged in ELA and math and fell about 2 points in science, while state results rose in all three subjects. Individual schools diverged: Eastwood gained 8 points in math but lost 7 in science; Canyon View improved in all three subjects; and Jeffrey Trail gained across the board, while Sierra Vista declined in all three. Context may help families compare schools, but it does not explain these differences: the reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure for 2024–25 ranged from 12% at Canyon View to 33% at Northwood Elementary, and K–6 student–teacher ratios ranged from 25.9 at Eastwood to 31.5 at Stonegate. Northwood High, the only high school listed, also exceeded state benchmarks in tested subjects, graduation and attendance, but has no local high-school peer for comparison.