Summary:
Zip code 93308 has two middle schools: Standard Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 1,005 students, and Beardsley Junior High, serving grades 7–8 with 383 students. In 2024–25, their student-teacher ratios were 20.3 and 18.9, respectively. In 2025–26, the schools’ equal-school average proficiency was 26% in English language arts (ELA), 12% in math, and 19% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The average gap was largest in math, at 27 percentage points; the key finding is that both schools were substantially below state proficiency in every tested subject.
The schools’ results vary by subject, with neither leading across the board. Beardsley was ahead in ELA, with 29% proficient compared with Standard’s 22%, a 7-point lead; Beardsley also led in shared grades 7 and 8, by 5 and 8 points. Standard had the math advantage, at 12% versus Beardsley’s 11%, a 1-point lead, and led in both shared grades. Beardsley also edged Standard in science, 20% to 19%, a 1-point difference. Even each school’s best subject remained well below the state: Beardsley’s best was ELA, 20 points below the state, while Standard’s best was science, 17 points below.
Science showed the clearest year-over-year improvement: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, it rose 3 points at Standard and 5 at Beardsley, while ELA rose by less than 1 point at Standard and 2 at Beardsley; math increased by 2 points at Standard and was nearly unchanged at Beardsley. The schools’ contexts differ, but those figures do not explain their results: in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 90% at Standard and 97% at Beardsley, and Standard had the higher ratio. SchoolDigger placed Standard at the 9th percentile with 0 stars, and Beardsley at the 14th percentile with 1 star, in 2025–26. Chronic absenteeism was similar at the schools—33% at Standard and 34% at Beardsley—and above the state’s 18%.
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