Summary:
Zip code 94947 has one middle school, Sinaloa Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 693 students. Its results can be compared with Novato Unified and California, but there are no other schools in this list to compare directly. In 2025–2026, about 60% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 49% in math, and 46% in science. The most important finding is that the school was ahead of California in all three subjects, by about 10–11 percentage points.
Sinaloa Middle is the only school in the area list, so there is no separate local top or bottom performer. It also exceeded district results in every all-grade subject: by 9 points in ELA, 9 in math, and 8 in science. Compared with the state, its advantages were 10 points in ELA, 11 in math, and 10 in science. Grade-level results show the largest ELA lead in seventh grade, at 14 points above California, while sixth-grade ELA was 5 points above. Math was more consistent across grades, with school results 11–14 points above state results; eighth-grade science was 11 points higher.
Results improved in math and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while ELA dipped slightly: math rose 3 points, science rose 3, and ELA fell by about 1 point. The state gap widened by about 2 points in math, narrowed by about 1 in ELA, and was unchanged to the nearest point in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 81st percentile in 2023–2024, 79th in 2024–2025, and 80th in 2025–2026. Other context includes a 20.4 student–teacher ratio and 42% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 12% in the district and 18% statewide. These figures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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