Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 93438 include 14 schools in Lompoc Unified: nine elementary schools, one middle school and four high schools. The supplied proficiency results cover 2024–25 and 2025–26, and each school reports its free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) share for 2024–25. Results vary widely from school to school, and the most important takeaway is that this is not a uniformly high- or low-performing area.
Buena Vista Elementary leads elementary schools in ELA and math: 51% of students were proficient in ELA and 35% in math in 2025–26. Its ELA result was 2 percentage points above the state’s 49%; its math result was below the state’s 38%. Cabrillo High led in science, at 39%, 3 points above the state’s 36%. At the other end, Maple High reported the lowest results in all three subjects: 5% in ELA, 0% in math and 3% in science. Across schools with reported results, averages were 29% in ELA, 16% in math and 19% in science—well below state averages of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively.
Recent changes were mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the school average fell 1 point in ELA and 2 points in math, while science rose 2 points; state results rose in all three subjects. Individual schools also diverged: science increased 9 points at Buena Vista but fell 16 points at Miguelito Elementary. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking fell for Cabrillo from the 64th to the 49th percentile and for Miguelito from the 42nd to the 28th. Context differs too: 41% of Buena Vista students and 85% at Maple were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, while Maple’s student-teacher ratio was 14.7 and chronic absenteeism was 81%, compared with 18% statewide. Graduation rates offer another perspective: Cabrillo’s was 95%, above the state’s 88%, while Maple’s was 90% despite its low proficiency results. The 2025–26 core-subject averages include 13 schools with reported results; Dr Bob Forinash Community Day has no reported results.
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