Best Public Schools in Zip Code 91105

Summary:

The 91105 zip code in Pasadena, California is home to a single elementary school, San Rafael Elementary, which serves grades K-5 with an enrollment of 385 students. The school is part of the Pasadena Unified School District, which is ranked 730 out of 1,568 districts in California and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

San Rafael Elementary's performance has been mixed, with its statewide ranking fluctuating between 1,733 out of 5,883 California elementary schools (4-star rating) in 2021-2022 and 2,326 out of 5,874 (3-star rating) in 2022-2023. The school's strengths include a high 3rd-grade English Language Arts proficiency rate of 70.49%, significantly above the district (48.66%) and state (42.8%) averages. However, the school's performance is inconsistent across grade levels, with some grades performing better than others.

Challenges for San Rafael Elementary include a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 18.8% and a significant proportion (37.92%) of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the potential impact of socioeconomic factors on student learning. The school's leadership may need to investigate the root causes of the high absenteeism rate and implement strategies to improve attendance, as well as consider the needs of its economically disadvantaged student population.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2024)				Ranking (2023)				CAST Science (2024)		Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2024)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2024)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2018)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	SchoolDigger Rating (2024)	Average Standard Score (2023)	Statewide Rank (2023)	State Percentile (2023)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science End of Course	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy End of Course	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics End of Course	Total
San Rafael Elementary	Public	K-5	1090 Nithsdale Rd.	Pasadena	91105	Los Angeles County	Pasadena Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(626) 396-5790	385	16	24.0	37.9%	58 (15.1%)	14 (3.6%)	280 (72.7%)	8 (2.1%)	1 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (6.2%)	60.5	2043^rd of 5862 public elementary schools	65.1%		54.2	2326^th of 5874 public elementary schools	60.4%	283	35.7	35.7	70.5	33.3	39.3	47.5	68.9	42.4	41.1	50.8	$6,273

Cities Near Zip Code 91105

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Pasadena	0.36 mi	23	471^st
Los Angeles	1.17 mi	747	564^th
South Pasadena	1.63 mi	5	19^th
Highland Park	2.72 mi	3	826^th
Alhambra	3.18 mi	11	195^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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