Best Public Schools in Zip Code 94579

Zip code 94579 has three schools serving kindergarten through grade 8—two elementary schools and one middle school—with 1,189 students combined. In the 2025–2026 all-grades results, the schools show different strengths by subject, but Dayton Elementary stands out most clearly in mathematics: it is the only school with a result above the state rate in any of the three subjects.

Dayton leads the three schools in ELA, math and science, with 39%, 48% and 34% proficient, respectively. Its math result is 10 points above the state rate and 21 points above the next-highest school, Corvallis Elementary, at 28%. The lowest results vary by subject: Corvallis is lowest in ELA at 25%, 13 points below Dayton, while Washington Manor Middle is lowest in math at 27% and science at 20%. Across the schools, the mean is 16 points below the state in ELA, 4 points below in math and 10 points below in science. Grade-level results add an important qualification: Corvallis leads Dayton in grade 5 ELA by 10 points and math by 2 points, so Dayton’s overall lead does not hold in every grade.

Recent results also differ: Dayton improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, including a 12-point science gain; Corvallis gained 9 points in science but fell 5 points in ELA and 6 in math; Washington Manor declined in all three. The three-school mean moved closer to the state in science, while its gaps widened in ELA and math. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 percentile rankings are 56 for Dayton, 24 for Corvallis and 35 for Washington Manor; across the three listed years, Dayton fluctuated and partly recovered, while Corvallis and Washington Manor declined. As context, all three reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–2025: 71% at Dayton, 71% at Corvallis and 74% at Washington Manor. Student-teacher ratios range from 19.3 at Corvallis to 24.5 at Washington Manor; chronic absenteeism is 14% at Dayton, 27% at Corvallis and 19% at Washington Manor. These are observations, not explanations for differences in results; all-grades figures also combine schools serving different grades.