Summary:
ZIP code 94122 has seven schools: four elementary schools serving grades 3–5, two middle schools serving grades 6–8 and one high school, with the group’s average 2025–2026 proficiency above California’s in ELA, math and science. Results vary substantially from school to school, especially in math, so the area-wide averages do not describe every school.
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary leads in ELA and math, with 83% and 79% proficient—about 34 and 41 points above the state, respectively; Lawton Alternative leads science at 73%, about 37 points above the state. At the other end, Independence High has the lowest result in all three subjects: 49% in ELA, 11% in math and 28% in science. Its ELA is about 1 point below the state, but math is 27 points below and science 8 points below. The math gap between the highest and lowest schools is 67 points, the widest spread across the subjects.
Recent results point in opposite directions at Brown Junior (Willie L) Middle and Independence: Brown rose 8 points in ELA, 12 in math and 11 in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Independence fell 14, 9 and 15 points. The group still averages about 21 points above the state in each subject, though that advantage narrowed from the prior year. SchoolDigger gives Giannini (A.P.) Middle and Lawton five stars, ranking them 145th of 2,703 middle schools and 226th of 5,804 elementary schools, respectively. Context measures do not sort schools neatly by results: Brown’s student–teacher ratio was 14.0 in 2024–2025, compared with 25.5 at Yu, while Yu leads in two subjects; reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 range from 27% at Key (Francis Scott) Elementary to 58% at Lawton. All-grades results can conceal differences by grade, so same-grade comparisons can add useful context.
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