Summary:
ZIP code 95627 has one listed middle school, Esparto Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 241 students. Since it is the only school in the list, there is no within-area top or bottom school comparison. In 2025–26, its proficiency was below the state rate in all three reported subjects: 28% in English language arts (ELA), 16% in math and 18% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that its results were below state levels in every subject, with gaps of about 21 points in ELA, 22 in math and 18 in science.
Within Esparto Middle, ELA was the highest-scoring subject, while science was closest to the state rate and math was farthest behind. The school’s 2025–26 results were close to those of Esparto Unified in ELA and about 1 point higher in math; science was also nearly the same as the district. Grade results show important differences: grade 7 ELA was 35%, about 16 points below the state, while grade 6 math was 9%, about 29 points below. Grade 8 ELA was 25%, about 24 points below the state. These results point to different areas of relative strength by subject and grade, rather than a single schoolwide pattern.
Results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in all three subjects, while state results rose, widening the school’s gap with the state each time. ELA fell about 14 points, math about 1 point and science about 21 points; science shifted from about 6 points above the state to about 18 points below. SchoolDigger ranked Esparto Middle 2,239th of 2,703 schools, in the 17th percentile with one star, in 2025–26; its prior-year ranking was 1,548th of 2,761, in the 44th percentile with two stars. Other context: its student–teacher ratio was 22.8 in 2024–25, and 81% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–26, below the district’s 19% and the state’s 18%.
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