Summary:
ZIP code 94591 has seven Vallejo City Unified schools: five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving grades K–12. For 2025–2026, the schools’ simple average proficiency was 32% in ELA, 24% in math and 19% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important finding is that the school average is below the state in all three subjects, even though one school stands out above state in ELA.
Cave Language Academy is the clearest all-grades standout: its ELA result was 54%, 20 percentage points above the next-highest school, Joseph H. Wardlaw Elementary at 34%, and 5 points above state. Cave also led math at 36%, though it remained 2 points below state. Wardlaw led science at 31%, 4 points ahead of Cave. At the lower end, Hogan Middle had the lowest ELA result at 24%, while Annie Pennycook Elementary had the lowest math and science results, at 13% and 12%. Pennycook’s math was 4 points below Hogan’s, the next-lowest result.
Across the seven schools, average results edged down by less than 1 point in ELA, about 1 point in math and 2 points in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results improved; the school-to-state gaps widened by 1, 2 and 6 points, respectively. Glen Cove Elementary had the sharpest decline, including an 11-point drop in science, and its SchoolDigger ranking percentile fell from the 54th to the 23rd; Cave stayed at the 58th percentile. Student–teacher ratios vary, from 20.9 at Hogan to 30.8 at Steffan Manor Elementary; these figures do not explain score differences. All schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, ranging from 66% at Wardlaw to 82% at Hogan. Jesse M. Bethel High offers a different signal: its graduation rate was 87.7%, close to the state’s 87.9%, despite below-state test results.
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