Summary:
The San Rafael City Elementary middle-school list has one school, James B. Davidson Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 1,052 students. In 2025–2026, Davidson scored above the district in ELA and science but below it in math; compared with the state, its all-grade results were lower in all three subjects. Most importantly, ELA is the clearest concern: Davidson’s all-grade result was 6 points below the state, its largest subject gap.
There is no school-to-school leader or trailer because Davidson is the only school listed. Within its results, 8th-grade math stands out: students scored 39%, about 3 points above both the state and district. That bright spot is not shared by the lower grades: 6th-grade math was 5 points below the state and 7th-grade math was 6 points below. ELA was below the state in every grade, with the widest gap in 6th grade at 9 points. Across all grades, Davidson was 5 points above the district in ELA and 3 points above it in science, but 2 points below in math. With only one school in the list, the data cannot show how Davidson compares with other local middle schools.
Results shifted differently by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Davidson’s science score rose 6 points and math rose 3, while ELA fell 2. Its gap with the state narrowed by 2 points in both science and math, but widened by 2 in ELA. SchoolDigger ranked Davidson 1,327 of 2,783 schools (52nd percentile) in 2023–2024, 1,282 of 2,761 (54th percentile) in 2024–2025, and 1,274 of 2,703 (53rd percentile) in 2025–2026—consistently near the middle of the statewide rankings. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 17.1 in 2024–2025, and 70% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) that year. Chronic absenteeism was 14% in 2025–2026, 5 points above the district and 5 below the state.
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