Summary:
Lafayette, California, has six schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. In 2025–26, every school’s lowest subject result was still well above the state result: at least 24 percentage points higher in science, 28 points higher in ELA and 32 points higher in math. The clearest area-wide strength is mathematics: the unweighted school average was 80%, compared with 38% statewide, a 41-point gap; the corresponding gaps were 33 points in ELA and 27 in science.
The top school depends on the subject. Happy Valley Elementary led ELA at 85% and science at 72%, while Acalanes High was close behind in ELA at 85%—just 0.1 point lower—but had the lowest math and science results, 70% and 60%. Springhill Elementary led math at 84%, 14 points above Acalanes. M. H. Stanley Middle had the lowest ELA result, 78%. Among elementary schools, grade-level leaders vary: Springhill led grade 3 ELA and math, Lafayette Elementary led both in grade 4, and Burton Valley Elementary led grade 5 ELA.
Recent changes were mixed, with science the main concern: the unweighted school average fell 3 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while the state result rose 3 points; the average school advantage in science narrowed by 6 points. ELA and math averages were nearly unchanged, and their advantages over the state narrowed by about 1 point each. SchoolDigger gives all six schools five stars, with statewide percentiles from 95th to 98th. As context, all report students free/reduced lunch eligible for sy 2024–25; figures range from 2% at Burton Valley to 10% at Lafayette. Elementary student-teacher ratios range from 21.7 at Springhill to 24.5 at Lafayette.
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