Summary:
ZIP code 91030 has one middle school, South Pasadena Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 1,096 students in South Pasadena Unified. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were well above California’s in every subject: ELA was 84% versus 49% statewide, math was 81% versus 38%, and science was 80% versus 36. The clearest finding is that the school’s state advantage was 34 points in ELA, 42 in math, and 44 in science.
South Pasadena Middle is the only school in this list, so there is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison with another local middle school. Against its district, the school was about level in ELA, 1 point higher in math, and 3 points higher in science. SchoolDigger ranked it 46th of 2,703 schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 98th percentile and awarding it five stars; those are SchoolDigger’s statewide measures, not a comparison among schools in the ZIP code.
Science showed the strongest year-over-year rise: proficiency increased 6 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, compared with 1 point in math, while ELA was nearly unchanged. In the latest grade-level results, ELA and math rates were higher in each successively higher grade, though those results reflect different student groups. Chronic absenteeism was 4% in 2025–2026, 14 points below the state rate and slightly below the district’s. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 23.9 in 2024–2025, and 15% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures describe one school and do not establish why its results differ from state or district rates.
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