Summary:
Zip code 93210 has one middle school, Coalinga Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 662 students. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates were below California’s in all three tested subjects: 27% in English language arts (ELA), 12% in math and 15% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The largest shortfall was in math, where the school was 26 percentage points below the state.
There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom school comparison because Coalinga Middle is the only school listed. ELA was its strongest subject by proficiency rate, while science was closest to the state benchmark: the gaps were 22 points in ELA, 26 in math and 21 in science. Compared with Coalinga-Huron Unified, the school was 3 points higher in ELA and 1 point higher in science, but 5 points lower in math. Within the school, grade 7 had the highest ELA and math results; grade 8 math was lowest, at 7% proficient, 30 points below California’s grade 8 rate.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with the biggest gains in science and ELA. Science rose 7 percentage points, ELA rose 6 and math rose 1; the gaps with California narrowed in each subject, though math’s change was slight. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved up, from the 5th percentile and 0 stars in 2023–24 to the 12th percentile and 1 star in 2025–26. Other context: in 2024–25, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 19.3:1, and 79% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures describe a single school and do not establish what caused its results.
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