Summary:
Schools in zip code 94103 include three schools serving grades K–12: Carmichael (Bessie)/FEC serves K–8, Marshall Elementary serves K–5, and S.F. County Opportunity (Hilltop) serves grades 6–12; together, they enroll 867 students. Among the two elementary schools with reported test results, both are below state proficiency rates in English language arts (ELA), math and science, with Carmichael ahead of Marshall in all three all-grades subjects. The most important finding is that neither elementary school’s reported proficiency rates reach the state level.
Carmichael has the higher all-grades results: 16% in ELA, 11% in math and 14% in science, compared with Marshall’s 7%, 8% and 5%. The schools’ gaps are largest in science (9 percentage points) and ELA (8 points), and smallest in math (3 points). Against state rates of 49% in ELA, 38% in math and 36% in science, Carmichael is behind by 34, 27 and 22 points; Marshall is behind by 42, 30 and 31 points. Hilltop stands out on other outcomes: its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 98%, graduation was 41%, and dropout was 44%, compared with state rates of 18%, 88% and 8%. Hilltop’s school-level test scores are suppressed, so it cannot be included in the elementary test comparison.
Recent results show different trends by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell by 1 point at Carmichael and 5 points at Marshall, while math rose by 3 points and 1 point, respectively. Science rose by 9 points at Carmichael but fell by 4 at Marshall. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking stayed at 2 for Carmichael across the three years shown; Marshall’s fell from 12 to 2 to 0. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were similar—24.7 at Carmichael and 25.1 at Marshall—and both reported free/reduced lunch eligible as their low-income measure: 77% at Carmichael and 79% at Marshall. These figures are context, not explanations for the schools’ results.
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