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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 93942

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Schools

1,204

Students

Top rankedMonte Vista1795^th of 5,817 California elementary schools

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Biggest riser

George C. Marshall Elementary up 882 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 93942 has two elementary schools in Monterey Peninsula Unified: Monte Vista serves kindergarten through eighth grade and George C. Marshall Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade. Both schools are above the state in all three 2025–2026 all-grade subjects, with Monte Vista ahead in each.

Monte Vista stands out overall: its results were 54% in ELA, 45% in math and 44% in science, compared with 49%, 41% and 40% at Marshall. The schools’ leads were about 5 points in ELA, 4 in math and 4 in science. Monte Vista’s clearest shared-grade strength was fourth-grade math, at 65% versus Marshall’s 36% and the state’s 42%. Marshall edged Monte Vista in third- and fifth-grade ELA and sixth-grade math, although those differences were small. All-grade results cover different grade spans at the two schools.

Marshall has made the larger recent gains: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, it rose 8 points in ELA, 7 in math and 19 in science, while Monte Vista’s ELA was nearly unchanged, math rose less than 1 point and science fell 4 points. SchoolDigger’s latest percentile ranking was 61 for Marshall and 69 for Monte Vista; Marshall rebounded from 46 the prior year, while Monte Vista’s rankings stayed in the upper 60s to low 70s. Other context differs: in 2024–2025, Monte Vista’s student-teacher ratio was 23.6 versus 22.2 at Marshall, and free/reduced lunch eligible enrollment was 46% versus 55%. Chronic absenteeism was low at both schools in 2025–2026—9% at Monte Vista and 9% at Marshall—compared with 16% districtwide and 18% statewide.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)			Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)							Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2024-25)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science 8th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Kindergartners with all required immunizations	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
George C. Marshall Elementary	Public	K-6	225 Normandy Rd.	Seaside	93942	Monterey County	Monterey Peninsula Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(831) 899-7052	516	23	22.2	55.4%	164 (31.8%)	55 (10.7%)	187 (36.2%)	39 (7.6%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (1.6%)	63 (12.2%)	55.8	2274^th of 5817 public elementary schools	60.9%		40.9	3156^th of 5857 public elementary schools	46.1%	882	40.0		40.0	38.2	53.2	56.7	49.0			49.3	36.4	36.2	48.3	40.8			40.8	95%	0%	$20,427	$1,707	$18,720
Monte Vista	Public	K-8	100 Toda Vista Dr.	Monterey	93942	Monterey County	Monterey Peninsula Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(831) 392-3890	688	29	23.6	45.9%	305 (44.3%)	24 (3.5%)	261 (37.9%)	33 (4.8%)	1 (0.1%)	9 (1.3%)	55 (8.0%)	65.6	1795^th of 5817 public elementary schools	69.1%		69.2	1637^th of 5857 public elementary schools	72.1%	158	47.2	40.8	44.2	37.8	70.1	56.3	54.6	64.1	40.8	53.9	41.9	64.9	42.1	39.8	48.4	31.6	44.5	95%	0%	$20,968	$1,495	$19,473

Cities Near Zip Code 93942

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Monterey	0.39 mi	7	296^th
Pacific Grove	0.99 mi	7	114^th
Seaside	3.45 mi	13	706^th
Carmel	4.31 mi	5	48^th
Marina	6.74 mi	8	685^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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