Summary:
ZIP code 94115 has two middle schools serving grades 5–8: KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy serves grades 5–8 and has 267 students, while Gateway Middle serves grades 6–8 and has 247; their achievement results are for 2024–2025. Gateway’s all-grades English results are essentially at the state level, while its math and science results are lower; KIPP is below the state in all three subjects. The most important shared concern is science, where both schools fall short of the state result.
Gateway stands out above KIPP in all three all-grades subjects: 49% versus 40% in English, 35% versus 33% in math, and 31% versus 20% in science—a lead of 9, 3, and 11 percentage points, respectively. But Gateway does not reach the state rate in math or science (37% and 33%); KIPP is further below in both. Across the two schools, the simple average is 45% in English, 34% in math, and 25% in science, respectively 4, 3, and 8 points below state averages. Shared-grade results add important detail: both schools’ average is below state in grade 6, above state in grade 7, and just below state in grade 8 for English and math. KIPP leads Gateway by a small margin in grade 7 math and by 3 points in grade 8 English, despite its lower all-grades results.
SchoolDigger gives both schools 3 stars: Gateway ranks 1,065th of 2,761 schools, at the 61st percentile, and KIPP ranks 1,326th, at the 52nd percentile. From 2022–2023 to 2024–2025, KIPP’s percentile is unchanged, while Gateway’s fell by 1 point; these rankings are not test-score trends. As context, both report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025: 93% at KIPP and 54% at Gateway, a 39-point difference. KIPP includes grade 5, so its all-grades results are not a fully like-for-like comparison; shared grades offer a fairer basis for comparing the schools.
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