Summary:
Middle-school families in zip code 92036 have one listed option: Julian Junior High, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 110 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was below California’s in every tested subject: ELA was 39% versus 49% statewide, math 35% versus 38%, and science 25% versus 36%. The most important finding is that the state gaps were largest in science and ELA—11 and 10 percentage points, respectively—while math was 3 points behind.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare because Julian is the only school in this list, but its grade-level results show a sharp contrast: sixth grade was above the state in both ELA (58% versus 48%, a 10-point lead) and math (46% versus 37%, a 9-point lead). By eighth grade, ELA was 25% versus 49% statewide, a 24-point shortfall; eighth-grade math was 32% versus 36%, 4 points lower. The school’s all-grades math result was its closest to the state benchmark, while science had the largest overall gap. Compared with the Julian Union Elementary district, the school was lower by 3 points in ELA, 8 in math, and 3 in science.
Scores improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three subjects: ELA rose 8 points, math 15, and science 2. The state gap narrowed by 7 points in ELA and 14 in math, but widened by 1 point in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,408th of 2,703 (48th percentile) in 2025–2026, up 522 places and 18 percentile points from the prior year; it received 2 stars in each of the three reported years. Other context includes a 21.8 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 65% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 5% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide and 5% in the district. These figures describe the school; the single-school list cannot show how school characteristics compare with achievement across local schools.
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