Summary
Lewis Flamson Junior High serves 884 students in grades 7–8 in Paso Robles, California. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was below the state in English Language Arts (ELA) and math but above it in science; the school exceeded its district in all three subjects, though math was nearly even. The clearest concern is that its all-grade proficiency rates were below those of each of the three nearby schools in ELA, math, and science.
Science is the school’s strongest subject against the state, while math is its weakest: proficiency was 40% in science, 5 points above the state, and 30% in math, 9 points below; ELA was 45%, 5 points below the state. Compared with Paso Robles Joint Unified, the school was about 2 points higher in ELA and science and essentially even in math. But its rates—45% in ELA, 30% in math, and 40% in science—were below the nearby-school averages of 59%, 43%, and 49%, respectively. Those nearby schools were Fine Arts Academy, Atascadero Middle, and Templeton Middle. Fine Arts Academy includes grades 4–8, so the all-grade comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
Scores rose from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, but the school’s gap with the state widened in math: its math proficiency rose 2 points while the state’s rose 4; ELA improved 3 points and science 6. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 54th percentile with 3 stars, below the nearby schools’ 63rd, 76th, and 77th percentiles. Its student-teacher ratio was 19 students per teacher in 2024–2025, compared with 20.4–20.8 nearby. In 2024–2025, 70% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a nearby-school average of 34%; this is context, not an explanation for test results. SchoolDigger’s group rankings also show lower statewide standing for Special Education Students (28th percentile) and Military Connected Students (26th) than for the school overall (54th percentile).
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