Redondo Beach Middle Schools Among Best In CA: New Ranking

REDONDO BEACH, CA — Two Redondo Beach middle schools were ranked in the top middle schools in the California, according to a new ranking from U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News researchers based the 2025 ranking of the nation’s best public middle schools on publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Education. The researchers analyzed 59,128 middle schools for the report.

The methodology for the rankings focused on state assessments of students who were proficient or above proficient in math and reading/language arts, while also accounting for students’ background and their achievements in core subjects. Student-teacher ratios were applied to break ties.

Parras Middle School ranked 150th in the state and has a math proficiency of 67 percent and a reading proficiency of 75 percent, according to the ranking.

Adams Middle School ranked 304th in the state and has a math proficiency of 57 percent and a reading proficiency of 68 percent, according to the ranking.

The rankings are intended as an evaluation tool to give parents a snapshot of how well schools provide a high-quality education and prepare students for a successful future, LaMont Jones, managing editor for Education at U.S. News, said in a news release.