Best High Schools in Zip Code 92628

Zip code 92628 has one listed high school, College and Career Preparatory Academy, serving grades 9–12, with 168 students and a 24:1 student–teacher ratio, in the Orange County Department of Education. Because it is the only school listed, it is also the area’s average. The most important finding for families is the school’s high chronic absenteeism: in 2025–26, 73% of students were chronically absent, compared with 18% in both the district and statewide, gaps of 55 percentage points.

There is no top or bottom school to compare in this one-school list, and the school’s ELA and mathematics results are suppressed. In science, the school’s 2025–26 all-grades proficiency was 20%: 16 percentage points below the state’s 36%, but 8 points above the district’s 12%; its grade 12 result was 20%, 13 points below the state’s 33%. Graduation was also below both comparisons, at 67% versus 88% statewide and 72% districtwide—gaps of 21 and 5 points. The dropout rate presents a mixed comparison: 12% was 4 points above the state’s 8%, but 2 points below the district’s 14%.

Science proficiency improved, but the school did not keep pace with the state: its all-grades result rose from 18% in 2024–25 to 20% in 2025–26, while the state rose by 3 points; the school’s gap to the state widened from 15 to 16 points. SchoolDigger’s historical ranking moved up from the 11th percentile in 2021–22 to the 26th percentile in 2022–23; its 23rd-percentile result in 2018–19 is a separate, nonconsecutive snapshot. SchoolDigger ranks the district 467th of 968, at the 52nd percentile, with 3 stars. The school’s free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 96% in 2024–25; this and the school’s staffing ratio are context, not evidence of what caused its results. With only one listed school and enrollment of 168, the data do not support comparisons among local schools, and rates may be sensitive to student numbers.