Summary:
ZIP code 95824 has one listed middle school, Will C. Wood Middle, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 680 students. Its latest results show proficiency below both Sacramento City Unified and California in ELA, math, and science. The most important finding is that the school’s largest gap is in ELA: 23% of students were proficient, 26 points below the state.
There is no within-area top or bottom school because Will C. Wood is the only school listed. Compared with the district and state in 2025–2026, the school had 23% proficiency in ELA, versus 41% districtwide and 49% statewide; in math, 20%, versus 32% and 38%; and in science, 17%, versus 30% and 36%. Its gaps from the state were 26 points in ELA, 19 in math, and 19 in science; the corresponding gaps from the district were 18, 13, and 13 points. Math was the school’s closest subject to the state rate, while ELA was farthest behind. Chronic absenteeism was also higher: 31% at the school, compared with 27% districtwide and 18% statewide.
Results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three subjects: ELA fell 4 points, math 0.4 points, and science 6 points, while state results rose in each. The school–state gap widened most in science, from 9 points to 19 points. Grade-level results offer some variation: grade 8 ELA proficiency was 25%, above grade 7’s 22%, but grade 8 math was 17%, below grade 7’s 21%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking fell from the 36th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 15th percentile in 2025–2026, and its rating shifted from 2 stars to 1. Other context includes a 20.2:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.
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