Summary:
ZIP code 92363 has one middle school, Needles Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 196 students. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 31% in English language arts (ELA), 12% in math, and 15% in science. Chronic absenteeism was 27%, compared with 25% in the district and 18% statewide. The most important academic concern is math: proficiency was 27 percentage points below the state result.
Because it is the only school listed, Needles Middle has no local peer at the top or bottom; its results are best understood against state and district figures. ELA is its strongest subject relative to the state: 31% proficiency versus 49%, an 18-point gap. Science was 15% versus 36% statewide, a 21-point gap, while math was 12% versus 38%, a 27-point gap. Grade 7 was the weakest of the three grades in both ELA and math: ELA proficiency was 25%, compared with 35% in grade 6 and 32% in grade 8; math was 10%, versus 15% and 10%, respectively.
Results moved in different directions over the two years reported: ELA rose by 4 percentage points, while science fell by 8 points and math dipped slightly; the state gap narrowed in ELA but widened in math and science. SchoolDigger gives the school 1 star in each of the three rank-history years, and its statewide percentile fell from 27th in 2023–2024 to 15th in 2025–2026. The student-teacher ratio was 17.3 in 2024–2025. As context, 83% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. These figures describe one school and do not allow comparisons with other schools in the area.
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