Summary:
The three schools listed in San Luis Coastal Unified serve different grade spans: Laguna Middle serves grades 7–8, Los Osos Middle serves grades 6–8, and Teach Elementary serves grades 4–6. In 2025–26, all three scored above state figures in ELA, math, and science. Because their grade spans differ, all-grades results are not a fully like-for-like comparison. The clearest overall finding is that strong results across the area conceal a wide school-to-school gap, especially in math.
Teach leads the all-grades results, with 92% in ELA, 86% in math, and 81% in science; Los Osos is lowest, at 67%, 49%, and 52%. The Teach–Los Osos differences are 25 percentage points in ELA, 37 in math, and 28 in science. Los Osos is below the district all-grades figures by 1 point in ELA, 9 in math, and 3 in science, while Teach is above them by 24, 29, and 26 points. Among the schools sharing grades 7–8, however, Los Osos leads grade 7 ELA, 77% to 69%; Laguna leads the other listed shared-grade comparisons, including grade 7 math, grade 8 ELA and math, and grade 8 science.
The area’s average advantage over state results narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by 1 point in ELA and 2 points each in math and science. That pattern varied by school: Teach improved in all three subjects, while Laguna’s science result fell and Los Osos’s math result fell. SchoolDigger gives Laguna a 2025–26 ranking of 291 of 2,703 schools (89th percentile, 4 stars) and Los Osos a ranking of 470 of 2,703 (83rd percentile, 4 stars). As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 25% at Teach, 43% at Laguna, and 51% at Los Osos; student–teacher ratios were 32.1, 19.8, and 18.5, respectively. Teach also had lower 2025–26 chronic absenteeism (6%) than Laguna (18%) and Los Osos (22%).
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