Summary:
Zip code 95351 has 11 schools—nine elementary schools, one middle school and one high school—with 2025–26 results showing substantial differences from school to school. The schools’ average proficiency was 31% in ELA, 21% in math and 17% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important takeaway is that the area’s averages are below the state in all three subjects, but a child’s results may differ considerably depending on the school.
Modesto High led all-grade ELA at 46%, about 3 points below the state. Virginia Parks Elementary led math at 33%, 5 points below the state, and Aspire University Charter led science at 26%, 10 points below. Robertson Road Elementary also stands out: with 306 students, the smallest enrollment, it scored 36% in ELA and 30% in math. At the other end, Tuolumne Elementary had the lowest ELA and science results, at 16% and 8%, while James Marshall Elementary had the lowest math result, 10%. Grade-level results can add useful detail: Virginia Parks’ sixth-grade ELA was 54%, above the state’s 48%.
Recent changes are mixed: the school-average ELA result rose about 2 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while math barely changed and science rose about 3 points; the math and science gaps with the state widened. Virginia Parks improved in all three subjects, while Tuolumne declined in all three. SchoolDigger’s rank percentile for Virginia Parks rose from the 27th to the 44th percentile over three years, while Tuolumne’s fell from the 4th to the 2nd. As context, all schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25, ranging from 84% to 95%; student–teacher ratios ranged from 16.3 at Robertson Road to 25.1 at Burbank. Schools serve different grade spans, so all-grade comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
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