Summary:
Willows Unified School District contains one middle school, Willows Intermediate, serving grades 5 through 8 with 464 students, located in a district that ranks in the bottom quarter statewide.
The school shows a clear pattern of strengths and challenges across different grade levels. Sixth graders are a particular bright spot, with their math proficiency nearly matching the state average, while eighth graders struggle significantly, especially in mathematics where proficiency drops to less than a third of the state average. Despite these academic difficulties, the school maintains a notable strength in student attendance, with a chronic absenteeism rate well below both the Willows Unified district and California averages.
Overall, Willows Intermediate has shown slow but steady improvement in its statewide ranking over the past three years. The wide variation in performance between grades suggests that the school's own successful strategies with sixth graders could be key to raising achievement in the upper grades, particularly to address the sharp decline in eighth-grade math.
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