Summary:
ZIP code 95134 has three Abram Agnew Elementary, Dolores Huerta Middle, and Kathleen MacDonald High schools serving grades K–12 in Santa Clara Unified. The clearest area-wide pattern is that English language arts (ELA) results are stronger than math, while math varies most from school to school. In 2025–2026, the three schools’ average proficiency was 58% in ELA, 40% in math and 41% in science; those averages were 9, 2 and 5 percentage points above state results, respectively. The most important difference for families comparing schools is math: Agnew was well above the state, while MacDonald was below it.
Agnew led all three subjects, with 63% proficient in ELA, 61% in math and 51% in science—14, 22 and 15 points above state results. MacDonald had strong ELA at 61%, 12 points above the state, but the lowest math result at 28%, 10 points below. Huerta was at 50% in ELA, just 1 point above the state, and was below the state by 7 points in both math and science. The math spread between the highest and lowest school was 33 points. MacDonald also had a 97% graduation rate, compared with 88% statewide, alongside higher chronic absenteeism than the other two schools: 16%, versus 13% at Huerta and 8% at Agnew.
Recent results show different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Agnew rose 7 points in ELA, 8 in math and 5 in science; Huerta gained 1 point in ELA but fell 1 in math and 7 in science; MacDonald fell 3, 7 and 8 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rose for Agnew, from 67 to 73 to 81 over three years, and declined for Huerta, from 62 to 60 to 55; MacDonald went from 80 to 68 between its two listed years. In 2024–2025, the reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 25% at Agnew, 32% at MacDonald and 37% at Huerta; student-teacher ratios were 21 at Agnew and 18.8 at MacDonald. These are contextual observations, not explanations for school results. Because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades comparisons are broad summaries.
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