Summary:
ZIP code 95461 has two high schools: Middletown High, serving grades 9–12, and Loconoma Valley High, serving grades 10–12; in 2024–2025 they enrolled 421 and 10 students, respectively. Both reported graduation rates above the state rate, but chronic absenteeism was also higher than the state rate at each school, especially at Loconoma Valley. The most important finding is that Middletown’s results differ sharply by subject: it is well ahead of the state in English language arts but behind in math and science.
Middletown High stands out in English language arts, with 70% proficient in 2025–2026 compared with 49% statewide, a 21-point advantage. Its math proficiency was 15%, 23 points below the state, and science proficiency was 25%, 11 points below. Loconoma Valley High cannot be placed above or below Middletown academically because its state-reported test results are suppressed. Graduation rates were 93.6% at Middletown and 93.8% at Loconoma Valley, versus 87.9% statewide; chronic absenteeism was 30% and 100%, respectively, compared with 18% statewide. The schools’ dropout rates, 3% and 6%, were below the state’s 8%.
Middletown’s proficiency declined in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: English language arts fell 3 points, math 9 points, and science 11 points, while state results rose in each subject. Its SchoolDigger percentile was 51 in 2025–2026, down 19 points from 2024–2025; Loconoma Valley’s latest listed SchoolDigger percentile, 9, is from 2012–2013 and is not a current comparison. In 2024–2025, the student–teacher ratios were 18.3 at Middletown and 10.0 at Loconoma Valley, and their reported free/reduced lunch eligible measures were 55% and 70%, respectively. These school-level figures provide context, not an explanation for test results. Loconoma Valley’s suppressed test results mean the available data cannot establish a two-school test-score ranking or an area test-score average.
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