Summary
Canoga Park Middle serves 579 students in grades 6–8 in Canoga Park, California, and is part of Los Angeles Unified. The main concern for families is that the school’s 2025–26 test results were below state and district results in all three tested subjects, and among nearby schools it ranked lowest in math and second-lowest in English language arts (ELA) and science.
Math is the clearest comparative weakness: 15% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide and 40% in the district, and Canoga Park had the lowest result among eight nearby schools with results that year. ELA proficiency was 22%, versus 49% statewide and 48% in the district; science was 17%, versus 36% statewide and 32% in the district. The school ranked second-lowest nearby in both subjects. Science was its strongest subject relative to nearby-school averages: Canoga Park was 22 points below the average in science, compared with 30 points below in ELA and 26 points below in math. Overall, however, the results show low proficiency across all three subjects.
Results have fluctuated, and the school has not caught up with the state: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency fell by 2 points, while math rose by 2 points and science by 5 points; the state gap widened in all three subjects. SchoolDigger ranked the school 2,414th of 2,703 California schools in 2025–26, at the 11th percentile with 1 star; nearby John A. Sutter Middle was next-lowest at the 12th percentile. A notable subgroup result is that SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves special education students was at the 42nd percentile in 2023–24, compared with the school’s overall 14th percentile that year; the subgroup ranking fell to the 21st percentile by 2025–26, still above the overall 11th percentile. Context includes a 17.0 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25, below the nearby-school average of 21.0, and 92% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism improved from 37% in 2021–22 to 24% in 2025–26, but remained above the state’s 18%.
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