Summary:
ZIP code 95019 has one elementary school, Freedom Elementary, serving grades K–5 and enrolling 479 students. In 2025–2026, 17% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 17% in math, and 12% in science, compared with 27%, 18%, and 19% respectively in Pajaro Valley Unified. The school’s most important challenge is its gap with the state: results were below state rates in every subject, with the widest gap in ELA at 33 percentage points.
Because it is the only school in the list, Freedom is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school locally; there is no other school to compare against it. Math is its strongest subject relative to the state: its 17% proficiency rate is about 44% of the state’s 38%, while ELA is about 34% of the state rate and science about 33%. Fifth grade is a relative bright spot compared with the district: ELA proficiency was 29%, 3 points above the district, and math was 18%, 2 points above. Both fifth-grade results remained below the state.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Freedom gained 4 percentage points in ELA, 2 in math, and 6 in science, narrowing its state gaps by 3, 1, and 2 points, respectively. SchoolDigger placed Freedom at the 5th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 3rd percentile the prior year; its rank improved by 171 places, to 5,498 of 5,804 schools. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 24.5 in 2024–2025 and 91% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 23%, versus 21% districtwide and 18% statewide. With one school, the data cannot show how Freedom compares with similar local schools.
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