Summary:
San Jacinto Unified has two middle schools, North Mountain Middle and Monte Vista Middle, and both serve grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average proficiency was 27% in ELA, 10% in math, and 17% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. Both schools were below the district and state in all three subjects, with the largest average gap from the state in math: 28 percentage points. The most important area-wide finding is that math proficiency is the clearest shared shortfall.
North Mountain Middle leads the overall comparison, scoring 29% in ELA, 12% in math, and 17% in science, versus 26%, 9%, and 16% at Monte Vista Middle. Its leads are 3 points in ELA, 4 in math, and 1 in science. North Mountain’s strongest grade-level result is seventh-grade ELA at 43%, 16 points above Monte Vista and 2 points above the district. Monte Vista has exceptions: it leads in sixth- and eighth-grade ELA and by a small margin in eighth-grade math. SchoolDigger ranks both schools low statewide for 2025–2026: North Mountain is 2,293rd of 2,703 (15th percentile, 1 star), while Monte Vista is 2,461st (9th percentile, 0 stars).
Recent results show a mixed picture: the two-school ELA average rose by 1 point from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell by 1 point and science by 1 point. Because state results improved in math and science, the average gap widened by 2 points in math and 5 in science, while the ELA gap narrowed by 1 point. Both schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, at 91.4% for North Mountain and 90.9% for Monte Vista; student-teacher ratios that year were 19.2 and 18.7, respectively. Chronic absenteeism is also elevated at both: 29% at North Mountain and 31% at Monte Vista in 2025–2026, above the district’s 22%.
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