Summary:
ZIP code 93234 has two schools in Coalinga-Huron Unified: Huron Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5, and Huron Middle, serving grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, both schools were below California’s proficiency rates in ELA, math and science: their two-school averages were 15% in ELA, 18% in math and 12% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. The biggest concern is ELA at Huron Middle, where proficiency was 39 points below the state.
Huron Elementary stands out with higher All Grades proficiency than Huron Middle in all three subjects: by 10 points in ELA, 17 in math and 2 in science. A grade-level bright spot is third-grade math at Huron Elementary, with 40% proficient compared with 47% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks Huron Elementary at the 14th percentile with 1 star, while Huron Middle is at the 3rd percentile with 0 stars. These All Grades comparisons are not like-for-like because the schools serve different grade spans.
Recent trends are mixed: the two-school math average improved 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the state rose 1 point; science gains were about 3.4 points for both, and the school average in ELA slipped 0.1 point as the state rose 0.5. Huron Elementary’s largest gain was math, up 8 points, while Huron Middle’s ELA fell 3 points. As context, in 2024–2025, 91% of Huron Elementary students and 90% of Huron Middle students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible; student-teacher ratios were 20.1 and 17.4, respectively. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 20% at Elementary and 24% at Middle, both above the state’s 18%.
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