Summary:
Zip code 95368 has one middle school, Salida Middle School - Vella Campus, serving grades 6–8 with 673 students. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was below California’s in English language arts, math and science. The most important academic concern is math, where 28% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide—a 10-point gap.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while math is its weakest: science proficiency was 33% versus 36% statewide, a 3-point gap, and ELA was 42% versus 49%, an 8-point gap. Eighth grade stands out within the school, especially in math: its 33% proficiency was 3 points below the state result, compared with gaps of 10 points in sixth grade and 13 in seventh. Because this is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison or meaningful top-versus-bottom ranking.
Results improved most clearly in science: school proficiency rose 7 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, compared with a 3-point state increase, narrowing the school’s gap by 3 points. ELA moved the other way: the school’s result fell 1 point as the state’s rose by less than 1 point, widening the gap by 1 point. SchoolDigger places the school at the 46th percentile and gives it 2 stars for 2025–2026; its percentile was 48th in each of the prior two years. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 18% but 1 point above the Salida Union Elementary district rate. The student-teacher ratio was 18 in 2024–2025, and 80% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school but do not show how those characteristics relate to results.
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