Summary:
Zip code 95012 has one middle school, North Monterey County Middle, serving grades 7–8 with 624 students. Its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency rates were 27% in English, 15% in math, and 13% in science; the most important finding is that all three were substantially below California’s rates, by about 22–24 percentage points.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school in this area because North Monterey County Middle is the only school in the list. Its grade-matched results were close to those of North Monterey County Unified: across the listed grades and subjects, the school was about 0–1 percentage point below the district. Against California, however, it was 23–24 points lower in those same comparisons. Across all grades, ELA was the school’s strongest result at 27%, while science was lowest at 13%; its gaps with the state were 22 points in ELA, 24 in math, and 23 in science.
Scores rose year over year, but science is the exception in progress relative to the state: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the school gained 3 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 1 in science. The ELA and math gaps with California narrowed by 3 and 6 points, while the science gap widened by 3. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking fell from 17 in 2023–24 to 9 in 2024–25, then recovered to 12 in 2025–26. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 20.8 in 2024–25, and 88% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–26, below the district’s 17% and California’s 18%.
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