Summary:
Middle-school families in ZIP code 93250 have one listed option, McFarland Junior High, serving grades 7–8 with 494 students in the McFarland area. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was 37% in English language arts, 30% in math and 23% in science, compared with statewide results of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. The most important finding is that the school improved in all three subjects but remains below the state in each.
There is no meaningful local top-versus-bottom comparison because McFarland Junior High is the only school in the list. Within its results, math is closest to the state, 8 percentage points behind, while science has the largest gap, at 13 points; ELA is 12 points behind. Math is also 5 points above the McFarland Unified result, while science is 2 points below it. Grade 8 ELA is a notable concern: proficiency was 33%, compared with 41% in grade 7, and grade 8 was 16 points below its statewide comparison, versus 10 points for grade 7.
Results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA increased from 31% to 37%, math from 23% to 30%, and science from 14% to 23%; the gaps with the state narrowed in every subject. SchoolDigger’s rating also improved, from the 23rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 39th percentile in 2025–2026, when the school received 2 stars and ranked 1,646 of 2,703 schools. Other context includes a 22.1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 88% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 10%, above the district’s 9% but below the state’s 18%. With one school listed, families cannot compare these context measures across local schools.
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