Summary:
ZIP code 94089 has two elementary schools, Lakewood Elementary and Fairwood Elementary, and both serve kindergarten through fifth grade. The clearest difference for families is that Fairwood’s results are higher than Lakewood’s in every subject and grade comparison provided.
Fairwood stands out at the top: in 2025–2026, 61% of students were proficient in ELA, 64% in math, and 47% in science. Those results lead Lakewood by 21, 27, and 16 percentage points, respectively. Fairwood is also above state results in all three subjects—by 12 points in ELA, 26 in math, and 11 in science—while Lakewood is below the state by 9, 1, and 5 points. Lakewood’s results were 40% in ELA, 37% in math, and 31% in science. One bright spot within Lakewood is fifth-grade math: 41% proficiency, 5 points above the state; fourth-grade math is a weaker result at 30%, 12 points below the state.
Results rose year over year in ELA and math at both schools, but science moved in opposite directions: Lakewood gained 2 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 4 in science, while Fairwood gained 2 in ELA and 7 in math but fell 7 points in science. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings also place Fairwood higher: 1,127th of 5,804 schools, in the 81st percentile with 4 stars, compared with Lakewood at 3,070th, in the 47th percentile with 2 stars. Other context measures differ: Lakewood has 372 students and an 18.0 student-teacher ratio; Fairwood has 324 students and an 18.8 ratio. For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 34% at Lakewood and 23% at Fairwood; these are observations, not explanations for test results. The comparison covers only two schools and cannot represent a broader area-wide pattern.
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