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Schools in Zip Code 95076


At a glance
36
Schools
15,394
Students
3
Districts
Top rankedDiamond Technology Institute732nd of 2,137 California high schools
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Biggest riser
Watsonville Charter School of the Arts up 1,727 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Mount Madonna School 6 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
3★
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1★
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11 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (private or too few tested students)
Summary:

Zip code 95076 has 27 schools—15 elementary, five middle and seven high schools—plus a county career-advancement charter serving grade 12. The schools include district and charter options, and their current unweighted all-grades averages are 24% in ELA, 14% in math and 13% in science. The most important finding is that all three averages trail the state: by 25 percentage points in ELA, 25 in math and 23 in science.

Top results differ by subject. Diamond Technology Institute leads ELA at 77%, 28 points above the state and 56 points above the other schools’ average; it also leads science at 36%, while its math score is 23%. Linscott Charter leads math at 35%, 22 points above the other schools’ average, and scores 53% in ELA. Pajaro Valley High stands out among larger high schools in ELA at 51%, alongside 15% in math. At the lower end, Amesti Elementary has the lowest ELA score, 7%; New School Community Day and Santa Cruz County Career Advancement Charter each score 0% in math and science, respectively.

School averages improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in ELA by 2 points and math by 2 points, but science improved by just 1 point as the gap with the state widened by 2 points. Results vary by school: Cesar E. Chavez Middle rose in all three subjects, while Landmark Elementary fell in all three. SchoolDigger’s rank history also shows different paths: Watsonville Charter School of the Arts moved from the 27th to the 45th percentile, while Diamond moved from the 80th to the 66th. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 range from 54% at Bradley Elementary to 97% at E. A. Hall Middle; Linscott reports 66% and Diamond 77%. Linscott also has a student–teacher ratio of 28.7, despite leading math, illustrating that these school characteristics do not sort results neatly. Watsonville Charter School of the Arts reports 7% chronic absenteeism, compared with 21% in Pajaro Valley Unified and 18% statewide.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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