Summary:
ZIP code 93103 has five schools: three elementary schools, one junior high, and one senior high, serving students from elementary through high school. In 2025–26, results differed substantially even between the two elementary schools with current-year scores: Franklin Elementary outperformed Cleveland Elementary in all-grade ELA, math, and science. The clearest finding for families comparing local elementary schools is Franklin’s broad lead over Cleveland, especially in ELA.
Franklin was the strongest current-year elementary performer, with 54% proficient in ELA, 50% in math, and 19% in science, compared with Cleveland’s 29%, 31%, and 4%. Those are school-to-school gaps of 25, 19, and 15 percentage points, respectively. Franklin was also 5 points above the state in ELA and 11 points above in math; Cleveland was 20 points below the state in ELA and 8 points below in math. Adelante Charter had the strongest elementary math result in 2024–25 at 58%, but that is not a same-year comparison. Santa Barbara Senior High was 2 points above the state in ELA, but 13 points below in math and 4 below in science. At Santa Barbara Junior High, seventh-grade math was 4 points above the state, while eighth-grade math was 15 points below.
Across the four schools with results in both years, average ELA and math gaps with the state narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by about 2 points each; the science gap widened by 3 points. SchoolDigger rankings also moved differently: Adelante rose 36 percentile points from 2022–23 to 2024–25, while Franklin fell 6 and Cleveland fell 8 over their three-year periods. In 2024–25, all five schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures; Franklin’s was 91% and Cleveland’s 81%, useful context but not an explanation of results. These schools serve different grades, and Adelante’s latest scores are from a different year than the other schools’ current results.
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