Summary:
The 94404 middle-school list contains one school, Bowditch Middle, serving grades 6–8 in the San Mateo-Foster City district; enrollment was 929. Its 2025–26 proficiency was above state and district levels in English Language Arts (ELA), math, and science. The clearest strength is math: Bowditch’s score was 72%, 33 percentage points above the state.
Bowditch Middle is the sole school in this area’s list, so there is no local top-to-bottom comparison. Against the state, it scored 74% in ELA and 66% in science, exceeding state results by 24 and 30 percentage points; it also scored 21, 21, and 20 points above the district in ELA, math, and science, respectively. SchoolDigger ranked it 169th of 2,703 California schools in 2025–26, in the 94th percentile, with five stars.
Results moved in different directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell by 1 point and math by 2, while science rose by 7; state results rose in all three subjects, so Bowditch’s lead widened in science but narrowed in ELA and math. SchoolDigger’s ranking remains high but has shifted from 124th and the 96th percentile in 2023–24 to 169th and the 94th percentile. Attendance is another favorable comparison: chronic absenteeism was 10%, below the district’s 15% and the state’s 18%. For context, the school had a 21.2:1 student–teacher ratio and 19% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; these figures describe the school and do not establish why its results differ.
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