Best Public Schools in Zip Code 92835

ZIP code 92835 has four elementary schools in Fullerton Elementary School District: Beechwood Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 8, while Laguna Road Elementary, Rolling Hills Elementary and Hermosa Drive Elementary serve kindergarten through grade 6; enrollment ranges from 302 to 872 students. The four-school averages are above state results in 2025–26 by 20 points in English language arts, 24 in math and 18 in science. The most important finding is that strong area averages hide a wide gap between schools: Beechwood leads every subject, while Rolling Hills has the lowest scores in all three.

Beechwood and Laguna Road are the top two in every subject. Beechwood scored 81% in ELA, 80% in math and 69% in science; Laguna Road scored 78%, 74% and 60%. At the other end, Rolling Hills scored 51% in ELA, 38% in math and 42% in science. The gap between the highest- and lowest-scoring schools is 30 points in ELA, 41 in math and 27 in science. Hermosa Drive sits between them, at 65% in ELA, 56% in math and 46% in science—all above state results. SchoolDigger ranks Beechwood 90th of 5,804 California schools (98th percentile, five stars) and Laguna Road 428th (93rd percentile, five stars); Rolling Hills is at the 61st percentile with three stars.

Recent results offer a mixed picture: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Laguna Road’s scores fell in all three subjects, while Rolling Hills improved in all three, including a 17-point rise in science. Hermosa Drive gained 5 points in ELA and 2 in math but fell 17 in science; Beechwood’s ELA was essentially unchanged while its math and science scores rose. SchoolDigger’s percentile rankings over three years also diverged: Beechwood rose from 95th to 98th and Hermosa Drive from 73rd to 80th, while Laguna Road fell from 97th to 93rd and Rolling Hills from 63rd to 61st. As context, in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 49% at Hermosa Drive and 53% at Rolling Hills, yet Hermosa Drive scored higher in each subject; this comparison does not explain the score difference. Beechwood’s larger enrollment and 26.3 student-teacher ratio also show that school characteristics vary alongside results.