Summary:
ZIP code 94956 has two schools serving 155 students across grades K–8: Inverness Elementary serves K–1, and West Marin Elementary serves grades 2–8. Test scores are available only for West Marin, so the data cannot show which school has stronger academic results. The most important finding is that West Marin is above Shoreline Unified in all three tested subjects, but above the state only in science.
West Marin stands out most in science: 44% of students were proficient in 2025–26, 8 percentage points above the state and 17 points above the district. Its ELA proficiency was 45%, 4 points below the state but 11 above the district; math was 38%, 1 point below the state and 12 above the district. Grade results vary sharply: fifth-grade math was 17 points above the state, while eighth-grade math was 20 points below. Both schools had low reported chronic absenteeism compared with the district and state: West Marin was at 5%, Inverness at 7%, versus 16% districtwide and 18% statewide.
Results changed in different directions over time at West Marin: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell 5 percentage points and its gap with the state worsened by 6 points; math fell 1 point and its state gap worsened by 2. Science rose 12 points, improving its state gap by 9 points. SchoolDigger’s rating remained three stars, while its ranking shifted from the 65th percentile in 2024–25 to the 63rd in 2025–26. For school context, Inverness is smaller (41 students versus 114) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (13.6 versus 16.2). Both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25: 61% at Inverness and 74% at West Marin; these are descriptive measures, not explanations for results.
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