Summary:
ZIP code 94709 has one listed school, Berkeley Arts Magnet at Whittier, serving grades K–5 with 407 students in Berkeley Unified. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades results were 78% in English language arts (ELA), 76% in math, and 75% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. Its advantage over the state was 29 percentage points in ELA, 38 in math, and 39 in science. The most important finding is that the school performed well above the state in all three reported subjects.
Berkeley Arts Magnet at Whittier is the only school in the list, so there is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison; it exceeded district results in all three all-grades subjects, by 6 points in ELA, 9 in math, and 17 in science. Science was its strongest subject relative to the state, with a 39-point advantage, while ELA had the smallest—but still substantial—gap at 29 points. Most grade-level results were also above district and state results. One exception is third-grade math: the school was 71%, compared with 71% in the district, a deficit of less than a point, while still 24 points above the state.
The school’s lead over the state widened in math but narrowed in ELA and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the gaps changed by 2 points, down 1 point, and down 10 points, respectively. In science, the school result fell 6 points while the state result rose 3; math was the only subject where the school’s result rose more than the state’s. SchoolDigger rated the school five stars in each of the past three years, with its ranking at the 94th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 93rd percentile in the prior two years. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 21.4 in 2024–2025 and 29% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 6% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 18%.
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