Summary:
ZIP code 93449 has two schools in Lucia Mar Unified: Shell Beach Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 6, and Judkins Middle serves grades 7–8; no high school is included. In 2025–2026, both schools were above the state in science, while their ELA and math results differed. The most important finding is that Shell Beach led Judkins in all three subjects, with its largest lead in math: 29 percentage points.
Shell Beach stands out at the top of the reported All-Grades results, with 69% proficient in ELA, 64% in math and 41% in science, compared with 57%, 35% and 38% at Judkins. Those school-to-school gaps are 12 percentage points in ELA, 29 in math and 3 in science. Both schools were above the state in ELA and science; in math, Shell Beach was 25 points above the state, while Judkins was 4 points below. Grade-level results show Judkins’ ELA above the state in both grades, but its math below the state in both.
Results changed in different ways over time: the two-school average rose 5 percentage points in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while it fell 2 points in ELA and 1 in math. Judkins’ science result rose 9 points, while Shell Beach’s increased by 1. SchoolDigger ranks show Judkins declining from the 70th to the 65th percentile over three years, with 3 stars each year; Shell Beach was at the 85th, 81st and 83rd percentiles and had 4 stars each year. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 60% at Judkins and 33% at Shell Beach; student-teacher ratios were 17.5 and 20.6, respectively. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 16% at Judkins and 8% at Shell Beach. These figures describe two schools with different grade spans and are not a guarantee of an individual student’s experience.
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