Summary:
ZIP code 94951 has one listed school, Penngrove Elementary, serving kindergarten through sixth grade and enrolling 472 students. With no other schools in the list, families won’t find a meaningful school-to-school comparison here. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades results were below the state in English language arts (44% versus 49%) and science (29% versus 36%), while math was essentially level with the state (38.5% versus 38.4%). The most important finding is that results vary sharply by grade: fourth grade stood out, while sixth-grade math was notably weak.
Fourth grade was the clear bright spot at Penngrove Elementary: 55% were proficient in ELA, 10 points above the state, and 54% in math, 11 points above. Sixth grade was at the bottom of the school’s reported grade-level results: ELA was 40%, 8 points below the state, and math was 24%, 13 points below. The fourth-to-sixth-grade difference was 15 points in ELA and 29 points in math. Third- and fifth-grade results were also below the state in both subjects. These are different grade cohorts, not a record of the same students’ progress.
Results declined year over year even as state results rose in all three subjects. At Penngrove Elementary, all-grades ELA fell from 47% to 44%, math from 50% to 38%, and science from 30% to 29% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; the largest shift was math. SchoolDigger gave the school 3 stars and ranked it 2,850th of 5,804 schools, at the 51st percentile, down 12 percentile points from the prior year. Context figures include a 29.5-to-1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 36% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 13%, below the district’s 17% and the state’s 18% in 2025–2026.
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