Best Public Schools in Zip Code 94022

94022 has seven listed schools—four elementary schools, one junior high, and two high schools—serving students from elementary through high school. Six have 2025–26 test results; the six-school averages are 81% in ELA, 75% in math, and 71% in science, compared with California averages of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important finding is that every school with 2025–26 results is above the state in all three subjects, though the advantage is much smaller at Palo Alto Middle College High in math and science: 22 and 14 percentage points, respectively.

Ardis G. Egan Junior High and Gardner Bullis Elementary lead the current group, with Egan highest in ELA at 88% and science at 84%, and Gardner Bullis highest in math at 86%. Egan’s ELA result is 6 points above the next-highest, Gardner Bullis; its science lead over Gardner Bullis is 2 points. At the lower end, Palo Alto Middle College High has the lowest math result, 60%, and science result, 50%; Los Altos High has the lowest ELA result, 77%. The highest-to-lowest spread is 11 points in ELA, 26 in math, and 34 in science. In the prior year, Bullis Charter led all seven schools in all three subjects; SchoolDigger ranked it second of 5,857 elementary schools in 2024–25 and ranked Egan 19th of 2,703 middle schools in 2025–26.

Recent progress is strongest in science: among five schools with results in both years, the average rose 5 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while the state rose 3 points; the area’s lead over the state widened by 2 points. ELA and math averages were nearly flat, and their leads over the state narrowed by about 1 point each. Science improved at four of those five schools, while Gardner Bullis fell 3 points; Palo Alto Middle College High also fell 8 points in ELA and 9 in math, with no prior-year science result supplied. Context differs across schools, but does not explain the scores: in 2024–25, the free/reduced lunch eligible measure ranged from 2% at Gardner Bullis to 19% at Santa Rita Elementary. The three K–6 schools had similar student–teacher ratios—18.5 at Almond Elementary, 18.3 at Santa Rita, and 18.6 at Gardner Bullis—while Egan’s was 22.5. Bullis Charter has no 2025–26 results in the supplied data, and Palo Alto Middle College High’s enrollment is 45, so its results may be less stable.