Summary:
ZIP code 94965 has one listed school, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Academy, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 262 students in the Sausalito Marin City district. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades results were above California’s in English language arts (56% versus 49%), math (47% versus 38%) and science (40% versus 36%). The clearest finding is that results improved from mixed performance the previous year to above-state results in all three subjects. Because this is the only listed school, there are no local school-to-school comparisons.
Results vary substantially by grade, especially in math. Third-grade math stands out at 79%, 32 percentage points above the state’s 47%; fourth-grade math was 62%, 19 points above the state. At the other end, eighth-grade math was 20%, 16 points below the state’s 36%, and sixth-grade math was 28%, 10 points below the state. Seventh-grade ELA was also strong at 72%, 22 points above the state’s 51%, while fourth- and eighth-grade ELA were below their same-grade state results by 1 and 3 points. In science, fifth grade was 48%, 13 points above the state; eighth grade was 27%, 9 points below.
The school improved in each subject between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: ELA rose 8 percentage points, math 7 and science 11. Its advantage over California widened by 7 points in ELA, 6 in math and 8 in science. SchoolDigger ranked it 1,698 of 5,804 schools, in the 71st percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026, up from 1,823 of 5,857, the 69th percentile and 3 stars in 2024–2025. Other context includes a 14.1 student-teacher ratio and 53% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 21%, compared with 18% statewide, a 3-point difference.
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