Summary:
ZIP code 92861 has four schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 3,898 students total; all are part of Orange Unified. The clearest academic standout is Villa Park Elementary, which leads the group in 2025–2026 ELA, math and science, with proficiency rates of 73%, 70% and 66%, respectively. Those results are 23, 32 and 30 percentage points above state rates, making its lead—especially in math—the most important finding for families comparing these schools.
The schools’ results vary most in math. Cerro Villa Middle has the lowest ELA result at 55%, though that is 6 points above the state rate. Villa Park High has the lowest math and science results: 33% and 47%, compared with state rates of 38% and 36%. Its math result is 5 points below the state rate and 37 points below Villa Park Elementary’s. The other three schools are above the state in math, and all four are above it in ELA and science. Across the group, the average advantage over the state is largest in science at 18 points, compared with 13 in ELA and 12 in math.
Results improved at every school in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; the four-school average rose 3 points in ELA, 4 in math and 9 in science. Science’s improvement was particularly strong at Villa Park Elementary, up 19 points. In Serrano Elementary, SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rose from 70th to 77th over the same three-year ranking period. The elementary schools also differ in reported context: for 2024–2025, 33% of Villa Park Elementary students and 40% of Serrano students were free/reduced lunch eligible, while their student-teacher ratios were 29.2 and 24.8. These figures are observations, not explanations of achievement. Villa Park High combines a 99% graduation rate with 21% chronic absenteeism, above the state’s 18%.
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