Summary:
Joan MacQueen Middle is the only middle school listed in Alpine Union Elementary; it serves grades 6–8 and has 405 students. With one school, local top-and-bottom comparisons are not meaningful. In 2025–2026, its clearest academic gap was in English language arts (ELA): 41% of students were proficient, 8 points below the state.
Against the state, Joan MacQueen was also below benchmark in mathematics, with 36% proficient (2 points below), and science, with 32% proficient (4 points below). The grade-level results show a math bright spot: seventh graders reached 44%, 6 points above the state and slightly above the district’s 43%; sixth- and eighth-grade math were each about 3 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism is another notable concern: the school’s 27% rate was 12 points above the district and 9 points above the state in 2025–2026. The school’s strongest relative subject depends on the comparison: math was closest to the state, while science was closest to the district.
Results improved in math and science between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, rising from 32% to 36% in math and 26% to 32% in science, while ELA fell from 43% to 41%. The school’s average gap to the state across the three subjects narrowed by about 1 point, though the subject trends were mixed. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking moved from 57th in 2023–2024 to 52nd in 2025–2026; the reported rank shifted from 1,206 of 2,783 schools to 1,285 of 2,703, and SchoolDigger gives the district 3 stars. For context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 18.9 in 2024–2025, and 37% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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