Summary:
Zip code 95139 in San Jose, California, is served by two public schools—Los Paseos Elementary (grades K-5) and Martin Murphy Middle (grades 6-8)—within the Morgan Hill Unified School District, providing a continuous K-8 education for local families.
Comparing the two schools reveals distinct strengths: Los Paseos Elementary excels in science and has better student attendance, while Martin Murphy Middle is showing recent improvement in its statewide ranking and performs well in 6th-grade English. However, both schools generally perform below state averages in English and math, a pattern seen across the Morgan Hill Unified district. Notably, academic performance in some subjects appears to decline in higher grades at the middle school.
Key considerations for parents include the middle school's higher per-student spending alongside its higher chronic absenteeism rate, and the elementary school's significant recent drop in its statewide ranking, which may warrant further investigation. The performance gap in science between the two schools suggests a potential need for better curriculum alignment as students transition from elementary to middle school in this community.
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