Summary:
North Monterey County Unified has one listed middle school, North Monterey County Middle, serving grades 7–8 with 624 students. With no other listed middle schools, the clearest comparison is with district and state benchmarks. The school’s proficiency is close to the district’s but substantially below the state’s in every reported grade and subject: state gaps range from 20 to 24 percentage points.
North Monterey County Middle is the only school in this comparison, so there is no local top or bottom school. Its strongest All Grades result relative to the state is ELA: 27% proficient compared with 49% statewide, a 22-point gap. The gaps are larger in science, at 23 points (13% versus 36%), and math, at 24 points (15% versus 38%). Grade-specific results show grade 7 math closest to the state, with a 20-point gap, and grade 8 math furthest, with a 24-point gap. In each grade-subject comparison, the school is less than 1 point below the district.
All Grades ELA and math improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose 3 points and math 7 points, narrowing their state gaps by 3 and 6 points. Science rose 1 point, but the state result increased more, so its gap widened by 3 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 2,384th of 2,703 statewide for 2025–26, at the 12th percentile with 1 star; its percentile was 17 in 2023–24 and 9 in 2024–25. Other context includes a 20.8 student–teacher ratio in 2024–25 and chronic absenteeism of 15%, below the district’s 17% and the state’s 18% in 2025–26. The school reported 88% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; California is a statewide-free-meals state, and that state policy does not change the school’s reported measure.
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