Fort Bragg Middle

Fort Bragg Middle serves 376 students in grades 6–8 in Fort Bragg, California; no other schools are listed within 20 miles. The most important finding is that its 2025–26 proficiency rates were below California’s in all three reported subjects.

ELA is the school’s strongest subject compared with the state and its district, while science is weakest against the state. In 2025–26, ELA proficiency was 32%, 17 points below California’s 49% but 2 points above Fort Bragg Unified at 30%. Math was 18%, 20 points below the state and 1 point below the district; science was 15%, 21 points below the state and 5 points below the district. There are no nearby schools to compare directly.

Results have shifted unevenly over time: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA fell from 39% to 32%, math rose from 14% to 18%, and science stayed nearly flat at 15%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also declined, from the 36th percentile and 2 stars in 2022–23 to the 21st percentile and 1 star in 2025–26. Its special education subgroup ranked at the 4th percentile in 2025–26, compared with the school’s overall 21st percentile, indicating a notably weaker statewide standing for how well the school serves this group. The English learner subgroup ranking fell from the 49th percentile in 2022–23 to the 9th in 2023–24; no later figure is supplied. Chronic absenteeism improved from 32% in 2022–23 to 27% in 2025–26, but remained above the state’s 18%. The student-teacher ratio was 17.0 in 2024–25, and 78% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures provide context, not explanations for academic results.