Summary:
ZIP code 95316 has one listed middle school, Denair Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 298 students. In 2025–2026, its strongest core-subject result was ELA, with 37% proficient compared with 49% statewide; science was 14% compared with 36% statewide. The most important concern is math: 12% of students were proficient, 27 percentage points below the state rate of 38%.
Denair Middle is both the area’s top and bottom school by default, not because it has outscored or fallen behind another local school. Among its core subjects, ELA was closest to the state rate, though still 12 points lower; science was 22 points lower, and math 27 points lower. Compared with Denair Unified, the school was 7 points higher in ELA and 2 points higher in science, while its math result was essentially level with the district. A grade-level exception is grade 7 CSA Spanish: reading was 10 points above the state rate and writing was 4 points above; these results are separate from core ELA. With only one school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison.
Core-subject results moved farther from state rates between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: Denair’s math proficiency fell by 8 points and science by 14, while the state rates rose slightly in both; the school-to-state gaps widened by 9 points in math and 17 in science. ELA changed little, but its gap widened by 1 point. SchoolDigger ranked Denair Middle 2,134th of 2,703 schools, in the 21st percentile, with one star in 2025–2026; it had two stars and the 36th percentile in 2024–2025. Context measures include an 18.1:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 69% of students reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 20% in 2025–2026, compared with 19% in the district and 18% statewide. All-grades CSA Spanish results were mixed: reading remained above the state rate, while listening was 5% compared with 24% statewide.
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