Summary:
Colma has one listed middle school, Benjamin Franklin Intermediate, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 497 students. With no other middle school in the list, families cannot compare local schools against one another. The most important finding is that the school’s 2025–2026 results were below both the district and state in all three subjects.
Among its subjects, math was closest to the state, while science was farthest behind: the school scored 26% in math, 13 percentage points below the state, and 20% in science, 16 points below; its ELA result was 34%, 16 points below the state. It was also below Jefferson Elementary in every subject, by 14 points in math, 13 in ELA, and 9 in science. Within the school, grade 7 was the clearest weak spot: ELA was 26%, compared with 37% in grade 6 and 38% in grade 8; math was 21%, compared with 26% and 30%, respectively. Grade 7 was 25 points below the state in ELA and 17 points below in math.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three subjects: ELA and science each rose 4 percentage points, and math rose 1 point; the school–state gaps narrowed by 4 points in ELA, 1 in science, and less than 1 in math. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, versus the 30th percentile and 1 star the prior year. Other context: its student–teacher ratio was 17.9:1 in 2024–2025, and 48% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 21% in 2025–2026, higher than the district’s 15% and the state’s 18%.
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