Summary:
Jacobsen Middle is the only middle school in Tehachapi Unified; it serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 925 students. In 2025–2026, proficiency at Jacobsen was below state rates in all three all-grade subjects: 27% in English language arts (ELA) versus 49% statewide, 20% in mathematics versus 38%, and 27% in science versus 36%. The most urgent grade-level finding is seventh-grade mathematics, where 15% were proficient compared with 38% statewide—a 23-point gap.
Because Jacobsen is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school leader or trailer to identify. Within Jacobsen’s results, science was closest to the state rate: 27% proficient versus 36%, a 9-point gap; it was also 1 point above the district rate of 26%. ELA had the widest all-grade gap with the state, at 22 points (27% versus 49%), while mathematics was 18 points below the state (20% versus 38%). Grade-level results underline the unevenness in math: the seventh-grade gap was 23 points, compared with 11 points in grade 6.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA proficiency fell from 31% to 27%, and its gap with the state widened by 4 points; math rose from 17% to 20%, narrowing its state gap by 2 points; science rose from 25% to 27%, while its gap widened by 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking also declined, from the 36th percentile and two stars in 2023–2024 to the 23rd percentile and one star in 2025–2026. For context, Jacobsen’s student-teacher ratio was 22.1 in 2024–2025, and 47% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school and do not explain its results.
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