Summary:
The Manzanita Middle District has one school, Manzanita Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 92 students. In 2025–2026, 15% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 8% in math, and 10% in science, compared with 49%, 38%, and 36% statewide. The school’s average across the three subjects was 11%, versus 41% statewide. Most importantly, its results were substantially below state levels in every subject, with an average gap of 30 percentage points.
Manzanita Middle is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this group simply because it is the only one; there is no meaningful comparison among local schools. Against the state, its smallest shortfall was in science, at 26 percentage points, while ELA had the largest gap, at 35 points; math was 30 points behind. Within the school, ELA proficiency was highest in 8th grade at 20%, while math was lowest in 7th grade at 6%.
Results moved farther from state levels between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: ELA fell from 29% to 15% and math from 13% to 8%, while science edged up from 10% to 10% after rounding. The average state gap widened from 22 to 30 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 962nd of 968, at the 1st percentile with 0 stars; its reported percentile also fell from 36th in 2023–2024 to 16th in 2024–2025 and 3rd in 2025–2026. Context measures include a 23:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, when 86% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible, and chronic absenteeism of 25% in 2025–2026 versus 18% statewide. These figures offer context, but this single-school list cannot show how they relate to outcomes.
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