Summary:
The 91791 middle-school list contains one school: Hollencrest Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 737 students, so families have one listed local option. Its clearest academic strength is English language arts, while mathematics is below state and district results.
There is no within-area top or bottom school to compare, but Hollencrest’s subject results show a clear contrast. In 2025–26, 53% of students were proficient in English language arts, 4 points above California and 6 points above West Covina Unified. Mathematics was 34%, 4 points below the state and 1 point below the district; science was 35%, 1 point below the state but 4 points above the district. The math result varies by grade: sixth grade was 8 points below the state, while seventh grade was essentially even with it; eighth grade was 1 point below.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: English language arts rose 2 points and its lead over the state widened by 2 points; science rose 5 points and its state gap narrowed by 2; mathematics fell 1 point, leaving it 2 points farther behind the state. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking fell from 67 in 2023–24 to 62 in 2025–26, a 5-point drop, while the reported rank moved from 916th of 2,783 to 1,026th of 2,703. For context, the school’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 24.5, and 81% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–26, below the state’s 18% but above the district’s 10%.
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