Summary:
ZIP code 94605 has one listed middle school, Frick United Academy of Language Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 392 students, so there is only one school in this data set to consider. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency rates were 11% in English language arts (ELA), 3% in math and 10% in science—below California by 38, 36 and 26 percentage points, respectively. The most important finding for parents is that results were substantially below state levels in all three subjects.
There is no top or bottom school within this ZIP code to compare: Frick is the only one listed. Science is its strongest subject relative to the state, with a 26-point gap, compared with 36 points in math and 38 in ELA. But math had the lowest proficiency rate, and all three subjects were also below Oakland Unified: by 17 points in science, 25 in math and 23 in ELA. Within Frick, grade 7 had the highest ELA result at 14%, while grade 8 led in math at 4%; those results were still well below the state figures for those grades.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three subjects, with the strongest gains in science and ELA. Frick’s ELA proficiency rose by about 6 percentage points and science by about 8; both state gaps narrowed, by about 5 points in ELA and 4 in science. Math rose by about 1 point, but its gap with the state widened slightly. SchoolDigger placed Frick in the 1st percentile in each of the three listed years, while its rank number improved by 99 places, from 2,764 of 2,783 to 2,665 of 2,703; it received 0 stars in 2025–2026. The supplied student-teacher ratio was 17.1:1 in 2024–2025. That year, 64% of students were directly certified for free meals. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 48%, compared with 30% districtwide and 18% statewide.
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