Summary:
The middle-school list for Newman-Crows Landing Unified contains one school, Yolo Junior High, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 738 students. There are no other middle schools in the list to compare with it. The most important finding is that Yolo’s 2025–2026 proficiency rates in all three core subjects were below state rates, with the largest gap in math.
No school stands out as an area-wide leader or trailer because Yolo is the only school listed; compared with state results, however, its math result is the weakest of the core subjects. In 2025–2026, 19% of Yolo students were proficient in math, versus 38% statewide, a 20-percentage-point gap; ELA was 34% versus 49% (a 16-point gap), and science was 21% versus 36% (a 15-point gap). Math weakness is most pronounced in the upper grades: grade 8 proficiency was 13%, compared with 36% statewide, while grade 6 was 26% versus 37%. A relative bright spot is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 4% at Yolo, compared with 8% districtwide and 18% statewide.
Results were mixed from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Yolo’s science proficiency rose 3 percentage points, while ELA fell 1 point and math was essentially unchanged; the math gap with the state widened from 18 to 20 points. SchoolDigger gives Yolo one star and places it in the 26th percentile for 2025–2026, down from the 30th percentile in 2024–2025 and 28th in 2023–2024. As context, the student–teacher ratio was 19.4 in 2024–2025, and 74% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. With just one school listed, these figures cannot show how Yolo compares with similar schools.
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