Summary:
Zip code 95461 has one listed middle school, Middletown Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 320 students in Middletown Unified. In 2025–2026, the school was below state results in all three reported subjects: 41% in ELA versus 49% statewide, 30% in mathematics versus 38%, and 20% in science versus 36%. Its largest state gap was in science, at 16 percentage points, making science the clearest academic shortfall.
There are no other schools in this zip-code list to rank above or below Middletown Middle; within the school, grade 6 had the strongest reported ELA and math results, while grade 8 had the weakest. ELA proficiency was 44% in grade 6 and 34% in grade 8; math was 35% in grade 6 and 22% in grade 8. Grade 8’s results were 15 percentage points below its same-grade state ELA result and 14 points below in math, compared with grade 6 gaps of 4 and 2 points. Chronic absenteeism was also higher than comparison rates in 2025–2026: 29% at the school, versus 25% in the district and 18% statewide.
The school’s scores generally fell further behind the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, despite a science improvement. ELA fell by 2 percentage points and math by 1 point, while the state results rose; science rose by 2 points, but the state rose by 3, so its gap widened from 15 to 16 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 43rd percentile in 2025–2026, and its rating declined from 3 stars to 2 stars, remaining at 2. The student–teacher ratio was 20.9 in 2024–2025, and 53% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. With only one school listed, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons.
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