Summary:
Mountain View Whisman has 11 schools: nine elementary schools serving grades K–5 and two middle schools serving grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, elementary averages were 61% in ELA, 59% in math and 53% in science—above state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The middle schools were also above state results in all three subjects. The central finding is that elementary results are sharply uneven: the top-to-bottom spread is 64 percentage points in ELA, 66 in math and 62 in science.
Amy Imai Elementary led elementary ELA and math, with 86% and 87% proficiency, while Stevenson Elementary led science at 78%. At the other end, Mariano Castro Elementary recorded 21% in ELA, 20% in math and 16% in science. The middle-school results were much closer: Crittenden Middle led ELA at 65% and science at 59%, while Isaac Newton Graham Middle led math at 59%. Their margins were just 2 points in ELA, 4 in science and 3 in math.
Recent changes were mixed. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, elementary averages rose 2 points in ELA and 3 in math, but fell 1 point in science; Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary gained 14 points in science, while Theuerkauf Elementary fell 16. SchoolDigger ranked Stevenson 75th of 5,804 California elementary schools, at the 99th percentile with 5 stars; Castro ranked 5,179th, at the 11th percentile with 1 star. As context, the schools’ reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–2025 ranged from 11% at Imai to 83% at Castro; these figures do not explain test results. Stevenson had 461 students and a student–teacher ratio of 24.2.
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