Summary:
ZIP code 93292 has one listed middle school, Valley Oak Middle, serving grades 7–8 and 952 students. In 2025–26, its proficiency was below the state rate in all three reported subjects: 43% in English language arts (ELA), 19% in math and 27% in science, compared with statewide rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. Math is the clearest challenge: Valley Oak was 19 percentage points below the state in math, its largest subject gap.
Valley Oak Middle is both the top and bottom school in this one-school list, so that is not a meaningful local comparison. Its strongest relative result was eighth-grade ELA, at 45%, essentially level with the Visalia Unified rate of 45%; seventh-grade ELA was 41%, compared with 49% districtwide. Math proficiency was nearly identical in grades 7 and 8, at 19% in each, and both grades were well below district and state results. Chronic absenteeism was a relative bright spot: 12% at the school, versus 19% districtwide and 18% statewide—about 6 percentage points lower than each.
Recent results improved in ELA and science, but math was nearly unchanged. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose from 37% to 43% and science from 19% to 27%, while math stayed at about 19%; the math gap with the state widened from 18 to 19 percentage points. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 1,996th of 2,783 schools in 2023–24 to 1,695th of 2,703 in 2025–26, and its percentile rose from 28 to 37; its rating went from one star to two and remained at two. For context, the school’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 21.6, and 80% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Because the list has only one school, it cannot show how these figures compare across local schools.
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