Summary:
Manzanita Middle District has one middle school, Manzanita Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 92 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades results were 15% in English language arts (ELA), 8% in math, and 10% in science, compared with California results of 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. The most important finding is that the school scored well below the state in every tested subject, with gaps of 35 points in ELA, 30 in math, and 26 in science.
Because it is the only school in the list, Manzanita is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school locally. Its strongest raw result was ELA at 15%, followed by science at 10% and math at 8%; measured against the state, however, science had the smallest gap, while ELA had the largest. The gaps also appear across grades: grade 6 ELA was 40 points below the state, and grade 7 math was 31 points below. In ELA, results rose from 8% in grade 6 to 20% in grade 8, but remained well below the state at each grade.
Results and rankings have moved in a concerning direction overall. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Manzanita’s ELA score fell from 29% to 15%, while the state stayed near 49%; the ELA gap widened from 20 to 35 points. Math fell from 13% to 8%, widening its gap from 25 to 30 points. Science edged up from 10.0% to 10.3%, but its gap still widened from 23 to 26 points as the state result rose. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,790 of 2,783 schools (36th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 and 2,611 of 2,703 (3rd percentile, 0 stars) in 2025–2026. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 23:1 in 2024–2025, and 86% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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