Summary:
Pittsburg Unified has three middle schools serving grades 6–8: Hillview Junior High, Rancho Medanos Junior High, and Martin Luther King Junior Junior High. Their 2025–26 results show that students’ proficiency varies by subject and school, but the broadest takeaway is that no school reaches the state proficiency figure in ELA, math, or science.
Rancho Medanos leads the group in all three all-grades core subjects, while Martin Luther King has the clearest weakness in science. Rancho’s results are 33% in ELA, 15% in math, and 22% in science; its leads are about 5 percentage points in ELA, 1 point over Hillview in math, and 3 points over Hillview in science. Martin Luther King’s science result is 11%, compared with 19% at Hillview and 22% at Rancho. Across the schools, average proficiency is 30% in ELA, 15% in math, and 17% in science—about 20, 24, and 19 points below state results, respectively. Hillview’s grade 8 math result stands out as an exception to Rancho’s overall lead: Hillview has 17% proficiency, compared with 12% at Rancho.
Recent results show a mixed picture rather than a consistent area-wide trend. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the three-school averages fell by 3 points in ELA, rose by 2 points in math, and rose by 3 points in science. Rancho’s SchoolDigger ranking rose from the 20th to the 22nd percentile; Hillview fell from the 19th to the 15th, and Martin Luther King from the 21st to the 12th. SchoolDigger gives all three schools one star. Their student-teacher ratios are similar, ranging from 21.0 to 21.7. In 2024–25, the schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 81% at Hillview to 84% at Martin Luther King, with Rancho at 83%; these are context, not explanations for results. CSA Spanish results are reported only for Hillview and Rancho, with Hillview ahead in Overall and Reading and Rancho ahead in Listening and Writing.
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