Summary:
ZIP code 94043 has five schools: four elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8, all in Mountain View Whisman School District. The clearest takeaway is the sharp difference among the elementary schools: Stevenson Elementary leads across subjects, while Theuerkauf Elementary has the lowest all-grades results in all three.
Stevenson is the standout: in 2025–26, 84% of students were proficient in ELA, 86% in math and 78% in science—35, 47 and 42 percentage points above state results, respectively. At the other end, Theuerkauf had 40% proficiency in ELA and 29% in science, 9 and 7 points below the state; its 42% in math was 4 points above. Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary also stands out for improvement, gaining 6 points in ELA, 4 in math and 14 in science from the prior year. Crittenden Middle was above state results in all three subjects, while Monta Loma Elementary was below state in science.
Across the five schools, average results rose 2 points in ELA and math from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while science fell by 1 point; science changes varied widely, from Vargas’s 14-point gain to declines of 16 points at Theuerkauf and 8 at Monta Loma. SchoolDigger ranked Stevenson at the 99th percentile (5 stars), Crittenden at the 87th (4 stars), Vargas at the 84th (4 stars), Monta Loma at the 67th (3 stars) and Theuerkauf at the 50th (3 stars). Reported student-teacher ratios also do not neatly predict results: Stevenson’s was 24.2 students per teacher, the highest, while Vargas and Theuerkauf had nearly identical ratios of 20.4 and 20.5 but different results. As context, the schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible shares for school year 2024–25 ranged from 14% at Stevenson to 39% at Theuerkauf; this measure does not explain school results.
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