Summary:
ZIP code 95129 has eight public schools serving kindergarten through 12th grade: six elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, across three districts. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average All Grades proficiency was about 80% in English language arts (ELA), 82% in math and 79% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38% and 36%. Most important, every school scored above the state in all three subjects, though the differences among schools are substantial.
Different schools lead in different subjects: Lynbrook High had the highest ELA result at 93%, Murdock-Portal Elementary led math at 96%, and John Muir Elementary led science at 90%. At the other end, Manuel De Vargas Elementary was lowest in every subject, at 55% in ELA, 58% in math and 60% in science—about 29, 28 and 22 points below the other seven schools’ averages. Its scores were still above state results overall, but its third-grade ELA result was 37%, below the state’s 44%. SchoolDigger ranks Lynbrook 12th of 2,137 high schools, Joaquin Miller Middle 20th of 2,703 middle schools, and Murdock-Portal 7th of 5,804 elementary schools.
Recent changes are mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the eight-school average fell 3 points in ELA and 1 point in math, while science rose 3 points; the state improved in all three, so the average school-to-state gap narrowed by about 4 points in ELA, 2 in math and 1 in science. Only Lynbrook improved in ELA and only Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary improved in math, while science rose at five schools. The reported low-income measure is free/reduced lunch eligible, 2024–2025: it ranged from 8% at John Muir to 45% at De Vargas. These are contextual observations, not explanations for scores; the measure and results do not align uniformly, as Dilworth’s scores were high with 20% eligible.
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