Summary:
Zip code 93505 has one middle school, California City Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 478 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency rates were 15% in ELA, 7% in math, and 4% in science. Those results were below the Mojave Unified district rates by 7, 4, and 9 percentage points, respectively. Most importantly, they were also about 31–34 percentage points below state rates in every tested subject.
There is no school-to-school standout because the area list contains just this one school. Within California City Middle, however, seventh grade had the strongest reported results in both subjects: 21% proficiency in ELA and 12% in math. Eighth-grade ELA was the weakest grade-level result, at 9%, compared with 17% in sixth grade and 21% in seventh. Math ranged from 4% in sixth grade to 12% in seventh and 5% in eighth. Grade-level ELA rates were above the district’s in all three grades, even though the school’s all-grade ELA result was below the district’s.
Results changed little over the two reported years: school ELA proficiency fell by about 1 percentage point, while math and science each rose by about 1 point. The school-state gaps widened in ELA, from 33 to 34 points, and science, from 29 to 32 points; the math gap stayed around 31 points. Chronic absenteeism was 53% in 2025–2026, above the district’s 50% and the state’s 18%. As context, 88% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 25.1 that year. SchoolDigger ranked the school 2,639 of 2,703 statewide in 2025–2026, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars; its rankings were also at the 2nd or 3rd percentile in the prior two years.
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