Summary:
The 91101 zip code in Pasadena, CA, contains one public school, McKinley Elementary, a K-8 campus serving 538 students within the Pasadena Unified School District.
This school faces significant academic challenges, ranking in the bottom quartile of all California elementary schools. Student proficiency rates in English, math, and science are substantially below both the district and state averages, with math scores showing the largest gap. A notable pattern is that academic performance declines as students progress into the middle school grades, especially in mathematics.
Despite these academic results, the school spends well above the typical amount per student in California. It also serves a student population with high economic need and experiences a chronic absenteeism rate much higher than the state average. While the broader Pasadena Unified district ranks in the middle statewide, McKinley is one of its lower-performing schools, indicating that district-wide performance varies significantly from campus to campus.
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