Schools in Zip Code 95304

Zip code 95304 has eight listed schools: five elementary schools, one middle school and two alternative schools, with no high school listed; New Jerusalem Elementary serves kindergarten only and has no test results in the supplied data. For 2025–2026, seven schools have proficiency results in English language arts (ELA), math and science. Their simple average was below the state in every subject: 39% versus 49% in ELA, 29% versus 38% in math, and 29% versus 36% in science. The clearest overall distinction is that only Jefferson and Lammersville Elementary exceeded the state in all three subjects; the other five tested schools fell below it in all three.

Jefferson led the area with 67% proficiency in ELA, 63% in math and 55% in science—10, 17 and 14 percentage points ahead of second-place Lammersville Elementary, respectively. Lammersville Elementary also exceeded state results in all three subjects, with 57% in ELA, 47% in math and 42% in science. The lowest result varied by subject: Delta Home Charter had 24% in ELA, Banta Elementary had 14% in math, and New Jerusalem had 13% in science. Those results were 25, 24 and 23 points below the state, respectively.

Recent changes were mixed: the seven-school ELA average rose by 1 point from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell by 1 point; the science average for the six schools with results in both years was nearly unchanged, and its gap with the state widened by 3 points. Lammersville Elementary’s SchoolDigger statewide ranking rose from the 51st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 70th in 2025–2026, while Jefferson’s moved from the 96th to the 90th. As context, the reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure for 2024–2025 was 26% at Jefferson and 37% at Lammersville Elementary, compared with 81% at Banta Charter; these figures describe context, not the cause of results. The supplied data also show student-teacher ratios of 22.2 at Jefferson and 16.8 at Lammersville Elementary.