Summary:
The 91766 middle-school list contains one school, Simons Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 578 students in Pomona Unified. The clearest concern is that its 2025–2026 proficiency results are below both district and state results in every reported subject.
Because Simons Middle is the only school in this list, it is both the highest- and lowest-performing school here; the list cannot show how it compares with other nearby schools. Its biggest state gap is in math: 13% proficient, 26 percentage points below the state. In ELA, 26% were proficient, 24 points below the state; in science, 15% were proficient, 21 points below. The school also trails the district by 13 points in ELA, 12 in math, and 8 in science. Sixth grade is the clearest low point: ELA proficiency is 10%, compared with 25% in seventh grade and 31% in eighth; math is 7% in sixth grade, versus 14% in both seventh and eighth.
From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA result fell by 3 percentage points and math by 4, while science rose by 2; state results improved in all three subjects, so the state gap widened in each. SchoolDigger ranks Simons Middle at 2,402 of 2,703, in the 11th percentile with 1 star, down from the 23rd percentile in 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism is also higher than comparison figures: 29% at the school, versus 24% in the district and 18% statewide. The school’s student-teacher ratio is 21.3 for 2024–2025, and 96% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; California’s all-students-free-meals policy is relevant context, not a substitute for the school’s reported measure.
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