L.A. County’s Top Schools

Here are Los Angeles County schools with top scores in the California Learning Assessment System, ranked by percentage of students scoring at the top three levels. School districts are in parentheses.

4th-Grade Reading

* Point Vicente (Palos Verdes) 94%

* Bay Laurel (Las Virgenes) 80%

* Horace Mann (Beverly Hills) 78%

4th-Grade Writing

* Welby Way (L.A. Unified) 91%

* Point Vicente (Palos Verdes) 91%

* Jefferson (Redondo Beach) 87%

4th-Grade Math

* Horace Mann (Beverly Hills) 50%

* Vista Grande (Palos Verdes) 43%

* Point Vicente (Palos Verdes) 40%

8th-Grade Reading

* Beverly Vista Elem. (Beverly Hills) 93%

* Whitney Jr./Sr. (ABC Unified) 90%

* Hawthorne Elementary

(Beverly Hills) 82%

8th-Grade Writing

* Whitney Jr./Sr. (ABC Unified) 94%

* Beverly Vista Elementary

(Beverly Hills) 91%

* Lincoln Elem. (Redondo Beach) 85%

8th-Grade Math

* Whitney Jr./Sr. (ABC Unified) 53%

* Beverly Vista Elementary

(Beverly Hills) 48%

* Huntington Inter. (San Marino) 45%

10th-Grade Reading * Whitney Jr./Sr. (ABC Unified) 90%

* Temple City High (Temple City) 64%

* Mira Costa High (South Bay) 63%

10th-Grade Writing

* Whitney Jr./Sr. (ABC Unified) 88%

* San Marino High (San Marino) 88%

* California Academy of Math

& Science (Long Beach) 79%

10th-Grade Math

* Whitney Jr./Sr. (ABC Unified) 57%

* San Marino High (San Marino) 44%

* Palos Verdes Peninsula High

(Palos Verdes) 37%

Low Scorers

Here are the schools with the lowest scores, based on percentage of students scoring at the lowest level. School districts are in parentheses.

4th-Grade Reading

* Fifty-Second Street (L.A. Unified) 32%

* Barton (Long Beach) 32%

* Sixty-First Street (L.A. Unified) 31%

4th-Grade Writing

* Walnut Park (L.A. Unified) 24%

* Hyde Park Blvd. (L.A. Unified) 22%

* Hamasaki (L.A. Unified) 21%

4th-Grade Math

* International (Long Beach) 84%

* Mann (Glendale) 70%

* Hudnall (Inglewood) 69%

8th-Grade Reading

* Lindbergh Middle (Long Beach) 11%

* Carver Middle (L.A. Unified) 13%

* Markham Middle (L.A. Unified) 13%

8th-Grade Writing

* Edison Middle (L.A. Unified) 16%

* Muir Middle (L.A. Unified) 15%

* Mt. Vernon Middle (L.A. Unified) 15%

8th-Grade Math

* Washington Middle (Long Beach) 60%

* Newcomb Elem. (Long Beach) 28%

* Hughes Middle (Long Beach) 22%

10th-Grade Reading

* Artesia High (ABC Unified) 27%

* Morningside (Inglewood) 22%

* Jefferson High (L.A. Unified) 17%

10th-Grade Writing

* Centennial High (Compton) 23%

* Locke High (L.A. Unified) 23%

* Jordan High (L.A. Unified) 20%

10th-Grade Math

* Pomona Sr. High (Pomona) 56%

* Dorsey ((L.A. Unified) 53%

* Compton High (Compton) 46%