Summary:
The 94602 middle-school list has one school, Bret Harte Middle, serving grades 6–9 with 337 students, so comparisons are with Oakland Unified and California rather than another nearby school. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 21% in ELA, 16% in math and 10% in science. The most important finding is that Bret Harte Middle was below both district and state results in all three subjects.
There is no local top-versus-bottom comparison, but eighth-grade math is the school’s relative bright spot, while science is its weakest all-grades result. Eighth-grade math proficiency was 23%, compared with 26% in the district and 36% statewide—gaps of 3 and 13 percentage points. That result was 12 points above the school’s sixth-grade math score of 11% and 11 points above its seventh-grade score of 12%. In contrast, all-grades science proficiency was 10%, 18 points below the district’s 27% and 26 points below California’s 36%. ELA was 21%, compared with 34% districtwide and 49% statewide; math was 16%, against 28% and 38%.
Results changed unevenly over time: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math rose by 3 percentage points, while ELA fell by 2 points and science slipped slightly, from 10% to 10%. The gap with California narrowed by 2 points in math but widened by 3 points in ELA and 4 points in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school 2,439th of 2,703, at the 10th percentile with 0 stars in 2025–2026; in 2024–2025 it ranked 2,447th of 2,761, at the 11th percentile with 1 star. Context measures include 42% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, versus 30% districtwide and 18% statewide, and 93% free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2024–2025; these figures describe the school but do not establish causes of test results.
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