Summary:
The Pollock Pines Elementary area has one middle school, Sierra Ridge Middle, serving grades 5–8 with 247 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 38% in ELA, 26% in math and 23% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that the school fell below California in all three subjects, with science showing the widest gap at 13 percentage points.
There is no school-to-school top-or-bottom comparison in this area; within Sierra Ridge, eighth-grade math is the clearest bright spot, while fifth grade is the sharpest concern. Eighth-grade math proficiency was 38%, 2 points above the California figure of 36%. In fifth grade, math was 9% compared with 37% statewide, a 27-point gap, and ELA was 25% compared with 49%, a 24-point gap. These grade-level differences show that the all-grade results do not tell the whole story.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose by 1 point, math fell by 1 point and science fell by 8 points at Sierra Ridge. The science gap grew from 2 points to 13, while the ELA gap narrowed from 13 to 12 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 1,517 of 2,783 schools (45th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 1,437 of 2,703 (47th percentile) in 2025–2026. The student-teacher ratio was 17.6:1 in 2024–2025, and 46% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 23.8% in 2025–2026, nearly the district’s 23.7% and above the state’s 18%.
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