Best Public Schools in Zip Code 94595

ZIP code 94595 includes three schools serving 990 students from kindergarten through grade 12: Parkmead Elementary (K–5, 478 students), Tice Creek (K–8, 451), and Acalanes Center for Independent Study (grades 9–12, 61). The clearest overall finding is that Tice Creek led the reported 2025–26 all-grades results in English language arts (ELA), math, and science.

Tice Creek scored 83% in ELA, 78% in math, and 67% in science—14, 6, and 7 percentage points above the next-highest school, Parkmead, respectively. Parkmead scored 70% in ELA, 72% in math, and 60% in science. Acalanes was close to Parkmead in ELA at 68%—2 points lower—but scored 28% in math and 18% in science, 44 and 42 points below Parkmead. Acalanes also had much higher chronic absenteeism: 73%, compared with 6% at Parkmead and 5% at Tice Creek. These all-grades results combine schools serving different grade spans.

From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the three schools’ unweighted average rose 7 points in ELA and 9 in math, but fell 7 points in science; Acalanes’s 35-point science drop drove that decline, while Parkmead and Tice Creek each improved in science. SchoolDigger ranked Tice Creek at the 94th percentile statewide, Parkmead at the 89th, and Acalanes at the 64th in 2025–26. At the two elementary schools, Tice Creek’s student–teacher ratio was 21.3, compared with Parkmead’s 25.1. Their 2024–25 reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 8% at Tice Creek and 19% at Parkmead; Acalanes’s was 16%, with a 9.5 student–teacher ratio. These figures offer context, not an explanation of test results.