Summary:
ZIP code 94535 has two K–5 elementary schools, Scandia Elementary (432 students) and Travis Elementary (421 students), both in Travis Unified. In 2025–2026, the area average was about 49% proficient in English language arts (ELA), 42% in math, and 37% in science. The most important finding is that Travis led Scandia in all three subjects.
Travis Elementary stands out at the top: its 2025–2026 results were 54% in ELA, 48% in math, and 41% in science, compared with 43%, 36%, and 32% at Scandia Elementary. Those are gaps of 11, 11, and 9 percentage points. Travis was above the state in each subject, while Scandia was below; the area average was roughly at the state level in ELA and above it by 4 points in math and 1 point in science. Grade-level results show an exception: Scandia’s fourth-grade math proficiency was 45%, 3 points above the state, while its fifth-grade math result was 22%, 15 points below the state. Travis’s fifth-grade results were notably higher than Scandia’s, by 19 points in ELA and 22 in math.
Results have shifted unevenly over two years. Scandia’s science result fell 27 points, from 59% to 32%, while Travis’s fell 6 points, from 47% to 41%; the state’s science result rose 3 points. Math increased by 2 points at Travis but fell by 4 at Scandia. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for Scandia declined from 65 to 49 over three years; Travis’s rose from 64 to 68 overall, after reaching 74. As context, student-teacher ratios are 20.6 at Scandia and 21.4 at Travis. For the 2024–2025 school year, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 52% at Scandia and 46% at Travis. Both schools also reported chronic absenteeism below the district and state rates: 6.9% and 6.3%, respectively, compared with 16.1% districtwide.
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