Summary
Main Street Middle in Soledad, California, serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 754 students. In 2025–2026, 28% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 18% in math and 22% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that the school’s proficiency rates were below the state’s in all three subjects.
Science is the school’s strongest subject compared with local peers and its district, while ELA has its widest state shortfall. The school’s science proficiency was 22%, above the 16% average for nearby schools and the 20% for Soledad Unified, though still below the state’s 36%. In math, Main Street’s 18% was above the nearby-school average of 16% but below the district’s 24% and the state’s 38%. ELA was 28%, below the nearby average of 30%, district’s 34% and state’s 49%; its gap with the state was 21.3 points, slightly larger than math’s 20.8-point gap. A grade-level contrast stands out: Main Street’s eighth-grade math proficiency was 21%, the highest among the nearby schools, while its eighth-grade ELA was 24%, below Fairview Middle and Chalone Peaks Middle.
Math and science have improved since 2022–2023, but the school has not kept pace with state gains: Main Street’s results rose 2 points in math and 3 in science, while its ELA result fell 2 points, and the state gaps widened in all three subjects. SchoolDigger ranks the school at the 20th percentile with one star in 2025–2026; it ranked second among the four nearby schools by percentile. In 2024–2025, 90% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student-teacher ratio was 21.1. Chronic absenteeism was 17%, below the state’s 18% and district’s 20%. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness ranking for Migrant Students was at the 44th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the school’s overall 20th percentile. Its ranking for Homeless Students fell to the 24th percentile from the 56th the year before.
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