Summary
Grange Middle is a public school in Fairfield, California, serving grades 6–8 in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified district, with 944 students. The main concern is that its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were low in all three subjects—18% in English Language Arts (ELA), 14% in math, and 15% in science—and below both district and state rates.
ELA is the clearest weakness compared with the state and nearby schools. In 2025–2026, 18% of Grange students were proficient in ELA, versus 49% statewide and 41% in the district—gaps of 31 and 22 percentage points. Grange had the lowest ELA result among nine nearby schools with comparable results. Math proficiency was 14%, compared with 38% statewide and 28% in the district; Grange ranked third-lowest among those nearby schools. Science was a relative bright spot, though still low: 15% were proficient, versus 36% statewide and 28% in the district, and Grange ranked second-lowest among nearby schools.
Science has improved most over time, but Grange has not caught up with the state: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, its science rate rose by 4 points and math by 2, while ELA fell by 2; the state-school gap widened in all three subjects. SchoolDigger placed Grange at the 8th percentile with 0 stars in 2025–2026, down 26 percentile points from 2021–2022 and the lowest ranking among nearby schools with a rating. Context measures also stand out: in 2024–2025, 87% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, more than at any comparable nearby school, while the student-teacher ratio was 22.5, around the middle of the nearby group. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 36%, 10 points above the district and 17 above the state. One comparatively stronger result was for English Language Learner students: in 2023–2024, SchoolDigger ranked Grange at the 36th percentile for how well it served this group, compared with the school’s overall 17th percentile that year.
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