Summary:
ZIP code 93440 has one listed school, Olga L. Reed Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 170 students. There are no other schools in the supplied list to compare with it. In 2025–2026, its proficiency rates were below California’s in all three reported subjects, with the largest gap in ELA: about 21 percentage points.
As the only school in the area list, Olga L. Reed is both the highest and lowest local option; within its results, math was closest to the state and ELA farthest behind. The school’s ELA, math, and science rates were 28%, 30%, and 27%, respectively, compared with 49%, 38%, and 36% statewide. Its gaps were about 21 points in ELA, 8 in math, and 9 in science. It also trailed Orcutt Union Elementary in all three subjects. Grade-level results varied: 8th grade was closest to state rates in ELA and math, behind by about 5 and 3 points, while 4th grade had the largest gaps, about 40 points in ELA and 17 in math.
Recent results were mixed: ELA proficiency fell 13 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math rose 2 points and science rose 13 points. The science gap narrowed from about 19 to 9 points, while the ELA gap widened from about 8 to 21 points. SchoolDigger ranked Olga L. Reed 4,516th of 5,804 schools, at the 22nd percentile, and gave it 1 star for 2025–2026; its percentiles were 25th in 2023–2024 and 31st in 2024–2025. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 24.1 in 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism of 20% in 2025–2026 (versus 14% in the district and 18% statewide), and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Because this is the only listed school and grade cohorts may be small, these figures do not support local peer comparisons.
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