Summary:
ZIP code 92003 has one listed middle school: Norman L. Sullivan Middle, serving grades 6–8 in the Bonsall Unified district, with 529 students and a student-teacher ratio of 22.3 for 2024–2025. With no other middle schools in the list, families cannot compare schools within the ZIP code; the clearest headline is that Norman L. Sullivan was above the state in all three reported subjects in 2025–2026.
As the only school listed, Norman L. Sullivan is both the top and bottom of the local list, so the useful comparison is with California overall. Its proficiency was 52% in ELA, 42% in math, and 44% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%—advantages of 3, 4, and 8 percentage points, respectively. Science was its strongest subject relative to the state. Results differed by grade: ELA grade 6 was about 1 point below the state, while grades 7 and 8 were 6 and 4 points above; math grades 6 and 7 were 7 and 9 points above, while grade 8 was essentially even with the state.
Math showed the clearest improvement over time: the school’s result rose 6 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its position changed from 2 points below the state to 4 points above. ELA fell 1 point, while science fell 4 points; science nevertheless remained above the state, though its advantage narrowed by 7 points. SchoolDigger places the school at the 69th percentile for 2025–2026, compared with the 68th percentile in 2023–2024, and gives the district 4 stars and a rank of 285 out of 968 districts. As context, 55% of students were reported free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 7% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 12% and the state’s 18%.
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