Summary:
ZIP code 95212 has one listed middle school, Morada Middle, serving grades 7–8 with 685 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency was 35% in ELA, 25% in math and 18% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important finding is that proficiency was below the state in all three subjects, with the largest shortfall in science: 18 percentage points.
Morada Middle is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list by default; there is no second school for a meaningful comparison. Within the school, grade 7 results were stronger than grade 8 in ELA and math: ELA was 39% in grade 7 versus 32% in grade 8, and math was 28% versus 22%. Grade 8 also had larger gaps from same-grade state results: 17 percentage points in ELA and 15 in math, compared with 12 and 10 points in grade 7. Grade 8 science proficiency was 18%, 17 percentage points below the state. Because the list contains only one school, it cannot show how schools in the area compare with one another.
Scores improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but the gains did not close every state gap: ELA rose by 1 percentage point and math by 2, narrowing their state gaps by about 1 point each, while science rose by 2 points as its gap widened by 2. SchoolDigger’s relative ranking fell from the 39th percentile in 2023–24 to the 30th in 2025–26; its latest rank was 1,898 of 2,703 schools and its rating fell from 2 stars to 1 star, even as proficiency rose from the prior year. As context, the school had a 19.3 student-teacher ratio and 83% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 23% in 2025–26, below Lodi Unified at 24% but above the state at 18%.
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