Summary:
ZIP code 94002 has six schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, with Nesbit spanning kindergarten through grade 8. Together they enroll 5,336 students. In 2025–26, every school’s all-grades proficiency was above the state figure in English language arts (ELA), math and science, but results vary substantially across schools. The clearest overall standout is Central Elementary, which led the other elementary schools in every grade-level ELA and math comparison shown.
Central had the highest all-grades results: 91% in ELA, 93% in math and 85% in science. Those scores were about 11, 18 and 14 percentage points above the average of the other five schools, respectively. Nesbit had the lowest all-grades scores—68% in ELA, 57% in math and 55% in science—and the gap between the highest and lowest school was 23 to 36 points, depending on the subject. Grade-matched results reinforce the differences: in grades 6–8, Ralston Intermediate’s math proficiency was 42–46 points higher than Nesbit’s in each grade.
Results rose on average from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but not at every school: the six-school averages increased by about 2 points in ELA, 1 in math and 2 in science. Cipriani Elementary fell by about 4 points in ELA, 4 in math and 6 in science, while Fox Elementary’s science score fell by about 5 points. SchoolDigger ranked Central 11th of 5,804 elementary schools, Ralston 23rd of 2,703 middle schools and Carlmont High 38th of 2,137 high schools in 2025–26. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 5% at Central and 6% at Fox; their student-teacher ratios were similar, 25.7 and 25.9. These measures are observations, not explanations of achievement, and all-grades results are not fully like-for-like because schools serve different grades.
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