John Yehall Chin Elementary in San Francisco.

Bay Area schools dominated the top 10 in a new ranking of the state’s best public elementary schools from U.S. News & World Report.

The 2027 list, published Tuesday, includes six Bay Area schools in the top 10, all located either in the South Bay or the Peninsula. The first Bay Area school to appear on the list was Murdock-Portal Elementary at No. 3, a K-5 school with more than 500 students in San Jose. Though it secured the highest Bay Area rank, the school was dethroned from the No. 1 slot it held last year. 

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The only schools ahead of Murdock-Portal were Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter in El Dorado Hills (No. 1), which was not ranked last year, and Cold Spring Elementary in Santa Barbara (No. 2), which jumped 12 slots from last year. 

Bay Area schools filled the next five places on the rankings. Those schools were: William Faria Elementary in Cupertino (No. 4), North Star Academy in Redwood City, a third through eighth grade school (No. 5), Herbert Hoover Elementary in Palo Alto (No. 6),........

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