Middletown Unified

Middletown Unified has six schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 1,452 students across the district. In 2025–26, the five schools with reported numeric results averaged 47% in ELA, 33% in math and 26% in science, compared with California averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. Results vary considerably by school and subject, but science is the clearest area-wide concern: the average was 10 points below the state.

Coyote Valley Elementary is the strongest all-around performer, scoring above the state in ELA, math and science; its math result was 53%, 15 points above California, and its science result was 39%, 3 points above. Middletown High led ELA at 70%, 21 points above the state, but had the lowest math score at 15%, 23 points below. Minnie Cannon Elementary was lowest in ELA, at 21%—29 points below the state—and science, at 17%, 19 points below. The contrast is a reminder that a school’s strength in one subject may not carry over to another.

Recent changes are mixed: the five-school average was essentially unchanged in ELA from 2024–25 to 2025–26, rose 2 points in math and fell 4 points in science, widening the science gap with California from 3 to 10 points. Cobb Mountain Elementary improved 20 points in ELA and 13 in math, while its science result slipped 2 points; SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose 14 places over three years. Rankings also rose for Coyote Valley and Minnie Cannon, but fell for Middletown High and Middletown Middle. As context, all schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25, ranging from 43% at Coyote Valley to 70% at Loconoma Valley High; Middletown High’s student-teacher ratio is 18.3, compared with 23.2 at Minnie Cannon. Loconoma Valley High has 10 students, and its proficiency results are state-suppressed, so it is not included in the school comparisons above.