Summary:
ZIP code 94086 has four elementary schools—Ellis Elementary, Ponderosa Elementary, Vargas Elementary and Braly Elementary—and all serve kindergarten through grade 5, in the Sunnyvale and Santa Clara Unified districts. In 2025–2026, their unweighted average proficiency was above California’s in all three subjects: by 4 points in English language arts (ELA), 13 in math and 11 in science. The biggest difference for families to note is how much results vary by school, especially in math, where the highest and lowest scores were 34 points apart.
Ponderosa Elementary had the strongest overall results, leading math at 63% and science at 60%; both scores were 24 points above the state. Braly Elementary led ELA at 62%, 13 points above the state, and placed second in math and science. Vargas Elementary had the lowest score in every subject: 36% in ELA, 30% in math and 35% in science. Its ELA and math results were 13 and 9 points below state levels, while science was about even with the state. Ellis Elementary ranked third of the four schools in all three subjects; its results were above the state in each, though its science score was 4 points below the other schools’ average.
Average results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by about 1 point in ELA, 1 point in math and 5 points in science, but Ponderosa Elementary declined in all three and remained the math and science leader. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 71 to 80 for Braly Elementary and from 78 to 81 for Ponderosa Elementary between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026; Vargas Elementary went from 42 to 40. Student-teacher ratios range from 17.9 at Vargas Elementary to 22.1 at Ponderosa Elementary, so the lower ratio does not correspond to higher scores across these schools. All four report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 25% at Ellis Elementary to 32% at Braly Elementary; these are context, not an explanation of results.
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