Summary:
ZIP code 91104 has four Pasadena Unified schools: three elementary schools serving K–5 and Thurgood Marshall Secondary, serving grades 6–12. The latest proficiency results are for 2025–26. All-grades results are not fully like-for-like because the schools serve different grade spans. The clearest overall finding is that results vary sharply by school and subject.
Thurgood Marshall stands out in secondary ELA and science: its all-grades results were 50% in ELA, 1 point above the state, and 44% in science, 8 points above. Its math result was 33%, 5 points below the state. Webster led in all-grades math at 44%, 5 points above the state, while Longfellow had the strongest elementary science result, 34%. Madison was lowest in every subject: 26% in ELA, 20% in math and 18% in science—23, 18 and 18 points below state results, respectively.
Recent changes were mixed: Webster’s math rose 9 points and Madison improved in all three subjects (ELA +6, math +3, science +2), while Thurgood Marshall’s science rose 10 points but its ELA and math fell; Longfellow’s ELA and math also declined. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings from 2023–24 to 2025–26 fell from 81 to 72 for Thurgood Marshall, 58 to 50 for Longfellow and 58 to 53 for Webster; Madison rose from 9 to 15 but remained lowest in proficiency. Context differs too: in 2024–25, the elementary schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible rates of 74% to 79%, while Thurgood Marshall reported 39% directly certified for free meals—a different measure. Webster’s 33% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 was the highest of the four, despite its leading math result.
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