Summary:
ZIP code 92612 has one middle school, Rancho San Joaquin Middle, serving grades 7–8 with 860 students in Irvine Unified. With only one school in the area, there is no local school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that the school is above both district and state proficiency results in all three reported subjects for 2025–2026.
Rancho San Joaquin Middle is the area’s sole school, so there is no separate local top or bottom performer. Its strongest advantage over the state is in math: 77% proficient, compared with 38% statewide, a 39-point lead. In science, 73% were proficient versus 36% statewide, a 37-point lead; in ELA, 77% versus 49%, a 28-point lead. The school is also ahead of the district in each subject, by 7 points in math, 8 in science and 3 in ELA. SchoolDigger ranks it 99th among 2,703 California schools, in the 96th percentile, with five stars for 2025–2026.
Recent results show math pulling farther ahead of the state, while ELA and science lose some ground relative to it. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, school math proficiency rose 3 points as the state rose 1, widening the school’s state advantage by 2 points; ELA fell 1 point while the state rose by less than 1, narrowing the advantage by 2 points. Science fell 1 point as the state rose 3, narrowing the advantage by 4 points. SchoolDigger’s rank moved from 73rd in 2023–2024 to 99th in 2025–2026, while its reported percentile shifted from 97th to 96th. Chronic absenteeism was 8% at the school, versus 9% in the district and 18% statewide. The student–teacher ratio was 24.3 in 2024–2025; 22% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. California’s statewide indicator says all students receive free school meals.
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