Summary:
Zip code 95405 has one middle school, Montgomery Junior High, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 577 students. In 2025–2026, about 25% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 15% in math and 22% in science. Results were below state figures in every subject, with gaps of 24 percentage points in ELA, 23 in math and 14 in science. The most important finding is that proficiency is substantially below state results across all three subjects.
There is no local school-to-school leader or trailer because Montgomery is the only school in the list. Within the school, ELA was its strongest subject by proficiency rate, while math was weakest; compared with state results, however, science was closest. The school’s gaps from state proficiency were 14 points in science, 23 in math and 24 in ELA. It also trailed the Santa Rosa High district by 6 points in science, 10 in math and 17 in ELA.
Test results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose by about 1 percentage point, math by 2 and science by 5, while the state gaps narrowed slightly in ELA and by about 1 point in math and science. Grade 8 results were further below state results than grade 7, especially in math: the gaps were 25 points in grade 8 and 17 in grade 7. SchoolDigger rated Montgomery one star and placed it at the 16th percentile in 2025–2026, unchanged from 2024–2025 and below its 20th-percentile standing in 2023–2024; its rank was 2,277 of 2,703. Chronic absenteeism was 28% in 2025–2026, compared with 27% districtwide and 18% statewide. Other context includes a 17.7 student-teacher ratio and 60% of students free/reduced lunch eligible, both reported for 2024–2025.
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