Summary:
Maricopa Unified has one middle school in this list: Maricopa Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 71 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 23% in English language arts, 9% in math, and 11% in science. The most important finding is that proficiency was below California’s results in all three subjects, with the largest gap in math.
Maricopa Middle is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school group, so there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Against California in 2025–2026, it was 26 percentage points lower in ELA, 29 points lower in math, and 25 points lower in science; science was closest to the state result, while math had the widest gap. Compared with the district figures, the school was 3 points higher in ELA, about even in science (less than 1 point higher), and 2 points lower in math. By grade, sixth-grade math had the largest state gap: the school was at 4%, compared with 37% statewide, a gap of 34 points. Eighth-grade ELA was also notably low at 19%, versus 49% statewide.
Results weakened in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while science edged up: ELA fell 2 percentage points, math fell 6, and science rose 1. The school’s gap with California widened in each subject—by 3 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 3 in science. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 5th percentile in 2023–2024, the 14th in 2024–2025, and the 7th in 2025–2026; its latest rating was 0 stars and rank was 2,524 of 2,703 schools. Context figures include a 15.7 student–teacher ratio and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 21% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide and 3% in the district. Because the list contains only one school, it cannot show how results or school characteristics vary across schools.
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