Best Public Schools in Zip Code 91214

Zip code 91214 has nine schools: six elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools, serving families in the Glendale Unified area. In 2025–2026, the schools’ unweighted averages were 78% proficient in ELA, 73% in math and 69% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The local advantage was largest in math, at 35 percentage points above the state average. Most important, every school scored above the state in all three subjects, although results still varied considerably from one local school to another.

Monte Vista Elementary led in ELA at 86% and math at 83%; both results were about 9 and 11 points higher, respectively, than the average for the other eight schools. Valley View Elementary led in science at 78%, about 11 points above the other schools’ average. At the other end, La Crescenta Elementary had the lowest results in all three subjects: 62% in ELA, 63% in math and 59% in science. Those scores were 17, 12 and 11 points below the other-school averages, but still 13, 24 and 23 points above state results. Among high schools, 11th-grade ELA was higher at Crescenta Valley High (84%) than at Anderson W. Clark Magnet High (78%); Clark led in math and science.

Across the nine schools, average results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by about 1 point in ELA, 2 in math and 5 in science, but individual schools moved in different directions: La Crescenta’s science result climbed 26 points, while Monte Vista’s fell 11. SchoolDigger gave eight schools five stars and La Crescenta four; its rankings placed schools between the 83rd and 98th percentiles in their respective categories. Other context does not neatly predict results: elementary student-teacher ratios ranged from 21.8 at Dunsmore Elementary to 26.7 at Monte Vista, yet Monte Vista had higher ELA and math scores while Dunsmore had higher science. The schools’ measure of free/reduced lunch eligible students (2024–2025) ranged from 32% at Monte Vista to 48% at La Crescenta; these figures provide context, not an explanation for score differences.