Summary:
The middle-school picture in ZIP code 95694 consists of one school, Winters Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 367 students. In 2025–2026, its proficiency results were below California’s in all three reported core subjects, with the largest shortfall in English Language Arts (ELA)—the most important academic concern in the available results.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school comparison because Winters is the only school in the area. Within its results, science stands out as the relative strength: 27% of students were proficient, about 4 percentage points above Winters Joint Unified, though 9 points below California. ELA proficiency was 25%, 24 points below the state and 7 points below the district; math was 17%, 21 points below the state and 2 points below the district. Seventh grade was strongest within the school in both ELA and math, at 35% and 22% proficient, respectively, but those results remained 16 points below California in each subject. SchoolDigger lists the school at rank 2,186 of 2,703, in the 19th percentile, with one star for 2025–2026.
Results have improved unevenly: science rose 8 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while ELA and math each fell by about 1 point. The science gap with California narrowed by 5 points, but the gaps in ELA and math widened. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also moved down, from the 22nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 19th in 2025–2026. As context, the student-teacher ratio was 19.8 in 2024–2025, and 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 14% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide. These figures provide context for the sole school, not a basis for comparing schools within the ZIP code.
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