Summary:
Fowler Unified has one middle school, serving grades 6–8, with 579 students: John Sutter Middle. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 39% in English language arts (ELA), 25% in math, and 24% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important finding is that proficiency was below the state in all three subjects, with the largest shortfall in math: 13 percentage points.
There are no peer schools in this list, so John Sutter Middle is both the top and bottom school by default, with no within-list gap. Results vary by grade: grade 7 ELA stands out as the relative bright spot, at 47% proficient—about 1 point above the district and 4 points below the state. By contrast, grade 6 has the largest state gaps among the reported grade-level results: 32% in ELA, 16 points below the state, and 20% in math, 17 points below. These differences show that the all-grade results conceal variation across grades.
Over time, math and ELA declined while science improved: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math fell 6 points, ELA slipped slightly from 39.4% to 39.1%, and science rose 5 points. State results improved in all three subjects, so the school’s math and ELA gaps widened, while its science gap narrowed. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also fell, from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 38th in 2025–2026, and its rating changed from 3 stars to 2. As additional context, chronic absenteeism was 8%, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 18%; the school reported 82% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 and a student-teacher ratio of 20.4 that year. Because this list contains only one school, it cannot show how these measures compare with other local middle schools.
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