English: Proficient or Advanced
Grade 11, spring 2026
- Gardena Senior High
- 53%Advanced: 20%
- Torrance High
- Clearly ahead: 77%Clearly ahead: Advanced: 38%
- California
- 57%Advanced: 27%
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Gardena Senior High and Torrance High
Torrance High is at the 91st percentile and Gardena Senior High the 42nd among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). Torrance High’s English (reading and writing) and math results are clearly higher.
Gardena Senior High 42nd
Torrance High 91st
California’s public high schools · 1 dot = 1 in 100
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Gardena Senior High 42nd
Torrance High 91st
California’s public high schools · 1 dot = 1 in 100
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How do their test results compare?
From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). marks a figure clearly ahead of the other school. California: the same grades statewide.
Math: Proficient or Advanced
Grade 11, spring 2026
- Gardena Senior High
- 29%Advanced: 12%
- Torrance High
- Clearly ahead: 54%Clearly ahead: Advanced: 29%
- California
- 32%Advanced: 16%
Do students show up and stay in class?
Average school: the average California high school we score.
Chronically absent
Missed 10% or more of school days · 2025–26 school year
- Gardena Senior High
- 33 in 100444 of 1,333 students
- Torrance High
- Clearly ahead: 8 in 100152 of 1,978 students
- Average school
- 22 in 100
Suspended at least once
2025–26 school year
- Gardena Senior High
- 0.1%1 of 1,375 students enrolled at any point in the year
- Torrance High
- 0.9%18 of 2,010 students enrolled at any point in the year
- Average school
- 2.9%
How are they scored, who runs them, and how big are they?
Percentile among California high schools, with the Scope Score
Spring 2025 tests: high scores include graduation and college-readiness records, which the state publishes a year after the tests
- Gardena Senior High
- 42nd percentileDevelopingScope Score 53
- Torrance High
- 91st percentileStrongScope Score 77
Who runs the school
- Gardena Senior High
- Los Angeles Unified
- Torrance High
- Torrance Unified
Teachers in their first year
2024–25 school year
- Gardena Senior High
- 4%
- Torrance High
- 1%
Average years of teaching experience
2024–25 school year
- Gardena Senior High
- 12
- Torrance High
- 17
Size, grades and staffing help you picture the school. A staffing ratio is not class size.
Students per teacher
Public schools: federal school directory, 2024–25 · a staffing ratio, not class size
- Gardena Senior High
- 18
- Torrance High
- 25
Grades offered
- Gardena Senior High
- 9–12
- Torrance High
- 9–12
Sources and definitions
Test results are from California’s state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026: the share of students tested in the level’s grades who scored Proficient or Advanced, per subject. California’s figure is our combination of the state’s published rows for the same grades. A ✓ marks a figure ahead of the others by more than twice the margin of error (on chronic absence, ahead means lower). Chronic absence and suspensions are the California Department of Education’s 2025–26 counts; “chronically absent” means a student missed 10% or more of school days. The absence and suspension references are the average California school we score at these schools’ level, each school counted once. The state growth measure is points above or below what the state expected from these students’ earlier scores, for grades 4–8, from the state’s spring 2025 release. Students per teacher is from the federal school directory, 2024–25, which also lists enrollment: Gardena Senior High 1,343; Torrance High 1,879. Teacher experience is the California Department of Education’s staffing file for the school year shown (teachers only).