Summary:
ZIP code 93204 has one middle school, Reef-Sunset Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 554 students. In 2025–2026, about 19% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 9% in math, and 7% in science, compared with about 49%, 38%, and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that Reef-Sunset’s proficiency was far below the state in all three subjects, by about 29–31 percentage points.
Because it is the only school in the list, Reef-Sunset is both the top- and bottom-scoring school here; there is no local school-to-school comparison. Within the school, ELA was the strongest subject and science the weakest. Compared with Reef-Sunset Unified, the school was about 1 point lower in ELA, less than 1 point lower in math, and 3 points lower in science. SchoolDigger placed Reef-Sunset in the 4th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 5th percentile in 2024–2025 and 6th in 2023–2024.
All three school-wide subject results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but the school did not consistently catch up with the state: ELA increased by about 2 points and its state gap narrowed by about 2 points, while math rose by less than 1 point and its gap widened by about 1 point; science increased by about 1 point, while its gap widened by about 3 points. Eighth-grade math was a district-relative exception: Reef-Sunset scored about 1 point above the district, but remained about 26 points below the state. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 20.7 in 2024–2025 and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was a relative positive in 2025–2026: 15% at Reef-Sunset versus 17% districtwide and 18% statewide. These figures describe the school, but do not establish why its achievement results differ.
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