Best Public Schools in Zip Code 93942

ZIP code 93942 has two schools in the Monterey Peninsula Unified district: Monte Vista, serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 688 students, and George C. Marshall Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 516 students. In 2025–26, Monte Vista scored 54% in ELA, 45% in math and 44% in science; Marshall scored 49%, 41% and 40%, respectively. The state results were 49%, 38% and 36%. Most importantly, both schools were above state results in all three subjects, though Marshall’s ELA score was almost exactly at the state level.

Monte Vista leads the current all-grade comparison, by 5 percentage points in ELA, 4 in math and 4 in science. Its fourth-grade results are a particular strength: 70% in ELA and 65% in math, compared with Marshall’s 53% and 36%. Both schools exceeded the state in fourth-grade ELA; in math, Monte Vista was above the state while Marshall was 6 points below. Marshall has a different grade-level bright spot: its fifth-grade math result was 48%, compared with 42% at Monte Vista, and both schools were above the state in fifth-grade math.

Marshall’s scores rose sharply from 2024–25 to 2025–26—8 points in ELA, 7 in math and 19 in science—while Monte Vista was nearly flat in ELA and math and fell 4 points in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking for Marshall rose from 46 in 2024–25 to 61 in 2025–26; Monte Vista’s was 72 and then 69. Context measures differ too: in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 46% at Monte Vista and 55% at Marshall; student-teacher ratios were 23.6 and 22.2, respectively. Both schools had lower 2025–26 chronic absenteeism than the district and state: 8.7% at Monte Vista and 9.3% at Marshall, versus 15.7% and 18.3%.