Summary:
ZIP code 94598 has seven schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, including four K–5 elementary schools and Eagle Peak Montessori, which serves grades 1–8. In 2025–26, every school’s reported all-grades proficiency was above the state result in English, math and science, but that shared strength hides sizeable differences between local schools: the math results span 37 percentage points.
Northgate High had the highest all-grades ELA result at 83%, while Walnut Acres Elementary led the four K–5 schools in ELA, math and science, with 79%, 82% and 64%. Among those K–5 schools, Bancroft Elementary was lowest in all three: its results were 59%, 56% and 50%, leaving gaps behind Walnut Acres of 21, 26 and 15 points. Foothill Middle was above state results in all subjects. Eagle Peak Montessori had the lowest all-grades math result, 45%; its grade-level results varied, with grade 4 above the state and grade 5 below it.
Recent changes were mixed: the unweighted school average was roughly flat in ELA and math and fell 2 points in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while state results rose in all three subjects. Valle Verde Elementary had the sharpest drops, down 9 points in math and 11 in science; Northgate gained 9 points in ELA and 10 in math. SchoolDigger ranked Northgate in the 92nd percentile in 2025–26, compared with Bancroft in the 77th. As context, all schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–25, ranging from 8% at Eagle Peak to 23% at Bancroft; these figures do not explain test results. Student–teacher ratios also varied, from 28.7 at Walnut Acres to 30.1 at Eagle Peak.
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