Summary
Harry S. Truman Middle is a Fontana, California, school in Fontana Unified, serving grades 6–8 and 883 students in an area with 10 nearby schools in the comparison. Its 2025–26 results were below state rates in English language arts (ELA), math, and science, and math is the school’s clearest academic concern: proficiency was 18%, 20 percentage points below the state and 9 below the district.
Science is the school’s strongest subject compared with nearby schools, while math is its weakest. Truman’s science proficiency was 24%, 2 points above the nearby-school average, though still 12 points below the state and 1 below the district. ELA proficiency was 35%—4 points below the nearby average, 14 below the state, and 6 below the district. Math was 18%, 6 points below the nearby average; the school ranked eighth of 11 nearby schools in math, compared with sixth in ELA and seventh in science. Overall, the results show a broad gap with the state, with science standing out as a local relative strength.
Results have improved over four years, especially in science, but recent progress has been uneven. From 2022–23 to 2025–26, proficiency rose 6 percentage points in ELA, 6 in math, and 15 in science; science then slipped from 26% in 2024–25 to 24%. Chronic absenteeism also fell, from 39% in 2021–22 to 24% in 2025–26, but remained above the district’s 20% and higher than at all but one nearby school. SchoolDigger places the school at the 27th percentile with 1 star, tied with one nearby school; its nearby peers range from the 13th to the 78th percentile. The 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 23.8, versus a nearby average of 22.6. The school reported that 89% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; California is also marked as a statewide-free-meals state. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves homeless students was at the 51st percentile in 2025–26, down from the 76th percentile the year before but above the school’s overall 27th percentile. For African American students, the ranking was at the 8th percentile in 2022–23, down from the 28th percentile in 2017–18.
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