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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 94578

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403

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Top rankedHillside Elementary5491^st of 5,817 California elementary schools

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Summary:

ZIP code 94578 has two schools: Hillside Elementary, serving K–5, and Alameda County Juvenile Hall/Court, an alternative school serving K–12. Both report 2025–2026 all-grades results in English, math and science. The most important finding is that Hillside leads this small comparison, but results at both schools are well below state levels in every subject.

Hillside is the top performer in all three reported subjects, with 16% in English, 20% in math and 2% in science, compared with 0% at Juvenile Hall/Court. Hillside’s lead is 16 percentage points in English, 20 in math and 2 in science. Even so, Hillside trails state results by 33 points in English, 18 in math and 34 in science. Its grade 5 math result is a particular concern: 5%, versus 31% in grade 3 and 27% in grade 4; grade 5 English is 14%, below its 16% and 18% results in grades 3 and 4.

Hillside improved in math but declined in English and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: math rose 4 percentage points, while English fell 2 and science fell 7. SchoolDigger ranks Hillside 5,478 of 5,804 schools, in the 6th percentile, for 2025–2026. Other context differs sharply: Hillside has 347 students and a 24.7 student–teacher ratio, compared with 56 students and 6.7 at Juvenile Hall/Court; free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 are 87% and 95%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism is 31% at Hillside and 4% at Juvenile Hall/Court. These schools serve different grade spans and settings, so their results are not a like-for-like comparison.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)			Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)							Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2024-25)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science 12th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 11th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 11th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Kindergartners with all required immunizations	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Hillside Elementary	Public	K-5	15980 Marcella St.	San Leandro	94578	Alameda County	San Lorenzo Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(510) 317-5300	347	14	24.7	87.0%	7 (2.0%)	69 (19.9%)	223 (64.3%)	27 (7.8%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (2.0%)	14 (4.0%)	11.8	5491^st of 5817 public elementary schools	5.6%		11.7	5529^th of 5857 public elementary schools	5.6%	38	1.7		1.7	16.3	18.2	13.6				16.0	31.3	26.8	5.1				20.3	97%	0%	$21,967	$19,864	$2,103
Alameda County Juvenile Hall/Court	Public, Alternative	K-12	2500 Fairmont Ave.	San Leandro	94578	Alameda County	Alameda County Office of Education	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(510) 670-7609	56	8	6.7	94.6%	3 (5.4%)	29 (51.8%)	23 (41.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.8%)								(n/a)		0.0	0.0						0.0	0.0						0.0	0.0

Cities Near Zip Code 94578

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
San Leandro	0.42 mi	18	614^th
San Lorenzo	0.62 mi	13	561^st
Hayward	1.39 mi	48	715^th
Castro Valley	1.66 mi	17	147^th
Oakland	3.08 mi	167	656^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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