Summary:
ZIP code 95357 has one listed middle school, Norman N. Glick Middle, serving grades 5–8 with 602 students. Its strongest all-grades result in 2025–26 was English language arts (ELA), at 49%, while math and science were 23% and 24%. The clearest academic concern is math: Glick’s result was 16 percentage points below California’s 38%.
ELA is Glick’s strongest subject compared with state results: its 49% was about even with California’s 49% and 10 points above the 38% result in the Empire Union Elementary district. Science was 12 points below the state but 1 point above the district. Results also differ by grade: grade 7 ELA was 1 point above the state, while grade 8 ELA was 4 points below; math was below the state in both reported grades, by 13 points in grade 7 and 16 in grade 8. With only one school listed, there is no local school-to-school leader or laggard to compare.
Math is improving, but the overall pattern remains mixed. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Glick’s math score rose by 3 percentage points and science by 2, while ELA was essentially unchanged; the state gap narrowed by 2 points in math but widened by about 1 point in both ELA and science. Chronic absenteeism was 27% in 2025–26, compared with 24% in the district and 18% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks Glick 1,528th of 2,703 schools, in the 43rd percentile with two stars; its percentile rose from 33 in 2023–24 to 45 in 2024–25, then dipped to 43. Other useful context includes a 20.6 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25 and 81% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25.
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