Summary:
South Whittier Elementary has one listed middle school, Richard L. Graves Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 484 students. The school’s 2025–2026 all-grades results were below California proficiency levels in ELA, math, and science; math had the largest shortfall, at 16 percentage points.
Because Graves is the only listed school, it is the area’s highest- and lowest-scoring middle school by default, which does not show how it compares with other local schools. In 2025–2026, 35% of students were proficient in ELA, 22% in math, and 22% in science, compared with statewide results of 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. Science is a small relative bright spot: Graves was 1 percentage point above the South Whittier Elementary district in that subject, but 14 points below the state. Available grade-level results also show a sizable ELA difference: grade 8 was 13 points above grade 7 at Graves, while both grades remained below state results.
Scores improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in science: Graves gained 2 percentage points in ELA, 1 in math, and 7 in science. Its gap with the state narrowed by 2 points in ELA and 3 in science, while math’s gap was essentially unchanged. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from the 35th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–2024 to the 29th percentile and 1 star in 2024–2025, then to the 31st percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 19.5 in 2024–2025, 92% free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2024–2025, and chronic absenteeism of 20% in 2025–2026, versus 17% districtwide and 18% statewide. Grade 6 ELA and math results are suppressed, and this one-school list cannot support local school-to-school comparisons.
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