Summary:
Zip code 93311 has two middle schools, Earl Warren Junior High and Tevis Junior High; both are in the Panama-Buena Vista Union district and serve grades 7–8. Their 2025–2026 results show an area with a clear difference between schools: both were above the state in ELA, but only Earl Warren was above the state in math and science. The most important finding is that Tevis was 12 points below the state in math and 8 points below in science.
Earl Warren stands out at the top, leading Tevis in all three subjects in 2025–2026: ELA proficiency was 70% versus 55%, math was 42% versus 27%, and science was 45% versus 28%. Those school-to-school leads were 15 points in ELA, 15 in math, and 17 in science. Earl Warren also exceeded state results by 21 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 9 in science. Tevis’s relative strength is ELA: its result was 6 points above the state, while its math and science results were below.
Results rose in ELA and science at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math was mixed: Earl Warren’s ELA increased 2 points and science 5, but math fell 1; Tevis’s ELA rose 6 points, science 2, and math less than 1 point. SchoolDigger ranked Earl Warren at the 80th percentile in each of the last three reported years; Tevis was at the 59th percentile in 2023–2024, 52nd in 2024–2025, and 54th in 2025–2026. Context measures also differ: for 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible was 59% at Earl Warren and 74% at Tevis. Earl’s student-teacher ratio was 21.0, compared with 19.7 at Tevis. These are observations about the schools, not explanations for their results.
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