Summary:
Zip code 95006 has one listed school, Boulder Creek Elementary, serving grades K–5 with 416 students, in San Lorenzo Valley Unified. Because the list includes only one school, it describes a single elementary option rather than a group of local schools to compare. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was above California’s in ELA, math, and science; its clearest strength was science, at 64% proficient versus 36% statewide, a 28-point advantage.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to both the state and district, while third-grade ELA is the clearest weak spot. All-grades proficiency was 56% in ELA, 53% in math, and 64% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. Science was also 16 points above the district rate. In grade 3 ELA, however, 42% of students were proficient, 3 points below the state and 10 points below the district. Upper-grade ELA was stronger: grade 4 was 12 points above the state, and grade 5 was 15 points above it.
Proficiency declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 4 points, math 5 points, and science 5 points, while state rates rose modestly; as a result, the school’s state advantage narrowed in every subject, most in science, by 8 points. SchoolDigger rated the school four stars in each of the past three years; its ranking improved from 1,653rd of 5,869 schools in 2023–2024 to 1,433rd of 5,804 in 2025–2026, but slipped 288 places from the prior year. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 19.7 in 2024–2025, and 30% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 19% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide and 8% in the district.
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