Summary:
ZIP code 92344 has one middle school, Cedar Middle, in the Hesperia Unified district; it serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 1,061 students. Because it is the only listed school, there is no meaningful local peer ranking. In 2025–2026, Cedar’s all-grades proficiency was below the state in English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics and science. The most important finding is that mathematics has the largest state gap: 14% proficient at Cedar versus 38% statewide, a 24-point difference.
Cedar Middle is both the highest- and lowest-listed school by default, so those labels do not show how it compares with other local schools. Within its results, science stands out as the strongest subject relative to the state: 22% proficient, 14 points below the state, and 2 points above the district. ELA was 29% proficient, 20 points below the state, while mathematics was lowest at 14%, 24 points below. Grade 8 results were further behind state results than Grade 7 in both ELA (23-point gap versus 19) and mathematics (26-point gap versus 19), with the wider grade difference in mathematics.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 4 points and mathematics fell 1 point, while science rose 7 points; science’s state gap narrowed by 4 points but remained 14 points. SchoolDigger reported rankings of the 21st percentile in 2023–2024, 24th in 2024–2025 and 18th in 2025–2026, with a 1-star rating. Other context includes a 22.7:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 57% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 28% at Cedar, below the district’s 32% but above the state’s 18%; these figures describe the school and are not explanations for its test results.
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