Summary:
ZIP code 93234 has one middle school, Huron Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 344 students in the Coalinga-Huron Unified area. The most important finding is that Huron’s 2025–2026 proficiency was below California’s in all three subjects, with the largest gap in ELA.
Because Huron is the only school in the list, it is both the highest- and lowest-performing school here; there is no school-to-school comparison. In 2025–2026, 10% of Huron students met or exceeded proficiency in ELA, compared with 49% statewide—a 39-point gap. Math was 10% versus 38% statewide, a 29-point gap, while science was 11% versus 36%, a 25-point gap, making science Huron’s closest subject to the state result. Within the school, eighth-grade ELA was strongest at 19%, compared with 8% in seventh grade and 5% in sixth; however, eighth-grade ELA was still 31 points below the state. Eighth-grade math was a relative bright spot against the district: 10% at Huron versus 8% in the district, though it remained 26 points below the state.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell by 3 points and its state gap widened by 4 points; math edged up, but its state gap widened by 1 point; science rose by 4 points and narrowed its state gap by 1 point. SchoolDigger awarded Huron 0 stars in each listed year; its rank position improved from 2,657 of 2,783 schools in 2023–2024 to 2,609 of 2,703 in 2025–2026, while its reported percentile shifted from 5 to 3. As context, 90% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 17.4 that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 24%, below the district’s 26% but above the state’s 18%.
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