Summary:
ZIP code 94020 has one listed school, La Honda Elementary, serving grades K–5 and enrolling 65 students; its clearest strength is that 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency was above California’s in ELA and math, while its science result was only modestly above the state’s.
There is no top or bottom school within the ZIP code: La Honda Elementary is the only school listed. In all grades, ELA proficiency was 65%, compared with 51% in La Honda-Pescadero Unified and 49% statewide; math was 57%, compared with 38% in the district and 38% statewide. Science was 40%, 4 points above the state but 3 points below the district. Fifth-grade ELA and math were especially strong relative to California: 73% versus 49% in ELA, a 24-point advantage, and 60% versus 37% in math, a 23-point advantage. The state suppresses third- and fourth-grade ELA and math results, so those scores are unknown.
Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 62% to 65%, while math fell from 62% to 57%; the school’s state advantage widened by 2 points in ELA and narrowed by 6 points in math. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 80th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 78th percentile in 2024–2025 and the 73rd percentile in 2014–2015. Other context: its student-teacher ratio was 16.2:1 in 2024–2025, and 22% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 16% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 23% and California’s 18%. These figures describe one school and do not establish why its results differ.
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