Summary:
ZIP code 94607 has six elementary schools: three serve kindergarten through grade 8, and three serve kindergarten through grade 5. In 2024–2025, their average proficiency was 44% in English language arts (ELA), 44% in math and 34% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 37% and 33%, respectively. Results vary sharply from school to school: Yu Ming Charter outscored the lowest-scoring school, Martin Luther King Junior Elementary, by 62 to 82 percentage points across the three subjects—the clearest overall finding for families comparing schools here.
Yu Ming Charter led the six schools in 2024–2025, with 84% proficient in ELA, 88% in math and 71% in science; it was 35, 51 and 38 points above state results in those subjects. At the other end, Martin Luther King Junior Elementary had 9% proficiency in ELA, 6% in math and 9% in science—40, 31 and 24 points below state results. In 2025–2026, Lincoln Elementary stood out among the K–5 schools in grade 5: its ELA, math and science results were 67%, 74% and 59%, compared with 33%, 8% and 8% at Prescott Elementary.
Among the four schools with results in both years, the average gap below state proficiency widened from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 2 points in ELA, 4 in math and 4 in science, although Lincoln Elementary’s science result rose by 10 points. SchoolDigger ranked Yu Ming Charter 151st of 5,857 schools in 2024–2025, at the 97th percentile with five stars. Other measures offer context, not an explanation of results: in 2024–2025, Lincoln Elementary and American Indian Public Charter School II had similar shares of students free/reduced lunch eligible (79% and 73%), while Martin Luther King Junior Elementary reported 74% directly certified for free meals, a different measure. It also had the lowest reported student–teacher ratio, 17.4, compared with Lincoln’s 24.1.
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