Summary:
ZIP code 92841 has one listed middle school, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 581 students. The key finding is that Alamitos Intermediate scored above California’s results in all three tested subjects in 2025–2026, with its largest advantage in science.
With only one school listed, there is no local top or bottom school to compare. Alamitos’s all-grades results were 57% in English language arts (ELA), 48% in math and 48% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. Its advantages were 7 points in ELA, 10 in math and 12 in science. Compared with the Garden Grove Unified district, however, Alamitos was 5 points lower in ELA and 4 points lower in math, while scoring 3 points higher in science. So being ahead of the state does not mean it is ahead of its district in every subject.
Math showed the strongest year-over-year improvement: Alamitos’s results rose 8 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; ELA increased 4 points and science 3. Its lead over the state widened by 3 points in ELA and 6 in math, while its science lead narrowed slightly. SchoolDigger gives Alamitos four stars, and its ranking rose to the 77th percentile in 2025–2026, from the 73rd percentile the year before. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 23.6 in 2024–2025, and 87% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 18% and above the district’s 13%.
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