Summary:
Healdsburg Unified has one middle school, Healdsburg Junior High, serving about 293 students in grades 6 through 8 in a district where nearly 65% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
This school shows a clear strength in English Language Arts, where student proficiency exceeds the California state average, but faces significant challenges in mathematics, with proficiency rates falling below the state average and declining in each successive grade. The school maintains a consistent mid-level performance, holding a 3-star rating and ranking between the 52nd and 62nd percentile of all California schools over the past three years, though it generally performs below the average for the Healdsburg Unified district as a whole.
Notable factors include a chronic absenteeism rate above the state average, affecting roughly one in five students, and a very high per-student spending level that has not yet translated to above-average outcomes in math and science. For parents, this indicates a school with solid literacy instruction and stable rankings, but one that may benefit from targeted support in mathematics and initiatives to improve student attendance.
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