Summary:
The ZIP code 95618 list contains one school, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Junior High, serving grades 7–9 with 533 students in the Davis Joint Unified district. In 2025–26, 53% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 47% in math, and 42% in science. Most importantly, the school was above state proficiency rates in all three subjects, but below district rates in all three.
Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while ELA is its weakest: its state advantage was 8 percentage points in math, 6 in science, and 3 in ELA. The district is a substantially higher comparison point: the school’s results were 14 points below district ELA, 15 below district math, and 18 below district science. Grade-level results add an important distinction: grade 7 was 7 points above the state in ELA, but grade 8 was 2 points below; both grades exceeded the state in math, by 13 points in grade 7 and 6 in grade 8. Grade 8 science was 6 points above the state.
The school’s scores fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26—by 5 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 3 in science—while state results rose in each subject, so the school’s state advantage narrowed by 6 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 7 in science. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 573 of 2,761 schools (79th percentile) in 2024–25 to 771 of 2,703 (71st percentile) in 2025–26, a drop of 8 percentile points; this is a separate signal from the school’s above-state proficiency results. Context measures include a student-teacher ratio of 20.1 in 2024–25 and 44% free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 was 18%, compared with 16% in the district and 18% statewide. Because only one school is listed, school-to-school comparisons are not possible, and grade-specific results are available only for grades 7 and 8.
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