Summary:
Zip code 94503 has one listed middle school, Pleasant Hill Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 738 students. With only one school in the list, there is no meaningful school-to-school ranking. The clearest finding is that Pleasant Hill scored above both state and district results in ELA, math and science in 2025–2026.
Pleasant Hill Middle is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list by default, so its scores are best understood against state and district figures. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was 64% in ELA, 46% in math and 49% in science. Those results were about 15, 8 and 13 percentage points above state results, respectively, and about 16, 7 and 15 points above the Mt. Diablo Unified district. Grade 6 math is a relative soft spot: the school was 39%, about 2 points above the state’s 37%, while its other reported grade-subject comparisons had wider state advantages.
Results improved in ELA and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math slipped: ELA rose 5 points to 64%, science rose 5 points to 49%, and math fell 1 point to 46%. The school’s advantage over the state widened by about 5 points in ELA and 2 points in science, but narrowed by about 2 points in math. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and ranks it 493rd of 968 in its district listing; its separate statewide percentile rose from 74th in 2023–2024 to 80th in 2025–2026. For context, the school had a 23.2 student–teacher ratio and 44% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 18% in 2025–2026, roughly level with the state and below the district’s 19%.
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