Best Public Schools in Zip Code 95655

ZIP code 95655 has two schools in Folsom-Cordova Unified: Mather Heights Elementary, serving grades K–5 with 236 students, and Folsom Cordova K-8 Community Charter, serving grades K–8 with 150 students. Their 2025–26 results show a clear shared strength in science: both schools were well above the state, while their all-grades ELA and math results differed substantially. The most important takeaway is that science stands out across both schools, but ELA and math do not.

Mather Heights leads on all-grades ELA and math: 55% proficient in ELA versus 47% at the charter, a 9-point gap, and 47% in math versus 34%, a 13-point gap. Mather was 6 points above the state in ELA and 9 points above in math; the charter was 3 points below state in ELA and 4 points below in math. In science, the charter leads: 56% versus Mather’s 50%, while both exceed the state—by 20 points at the charter and 14 points at Mather. Grade 5 is a notable exception to Mather’s ELA lead: the charter was ahead by 2 points in ELA and 11 in science, while Mather led by 1 point in math.

Both schools’ all-grades ELA and math results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Mather dropped 10 points in ELA and 13 in math; the charter fell 7 and 9 points. The unweighted school average’s advantage over the state narrowed from 11 to 2 points in ELA and from 14 to 2 in math. Science moved in opposite directions: Mather fell 14 points, while the charter rose 12. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for Mather declined from 83 in 2023–24 to 70 in 2025–26; the charter’s went from 63 to 55, after reaching 73 in 2024–25. Both schools reported similar free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–25—38% at Mather and 37% at the charter—and their student-teacher ratios were 18.3 and 20.2, respectively. Because the schools serve different grade spans and have relatively small enrollments, all-grades comparisons are not fully like-for-like and results may shift with the number of students tested.