Summary:
Zip code 95955 has three Maxwell Unified schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: Maxwell Elementary (K–5), Maxwell Middle (6–8), and Maxwell Senior High (9–12), with 331 students combined. Because the schools serve different grades, their schoolwide scores are not fully like-for-like comparisons. The most important pattern for families is that results vary sharply by grade and subject, so a schoolwide score can hide both strong pockets and significant weaknesses.
Maxwell Elementary leads the 2025–2026 All Grades ELA and math results, at 46% and 34%; Maxwell Middle is close in ELA at 43% and leads science at 53%. Elementary’s ELA and math results are respectively 3 and 4 points above Middle’s, while Middle’s science result is 25 points above Elementary’s and 37 points above Maxwell Senior High’s 16%. Senior High has the lowest All Grades results in all three subjects: 36% in ELA, 22% in math, and 16% in science. It also has strong completion and attendance figures: graduation is 97%, compared with 88% statewide, and chronic absenteeism is 6%, compared with 18% statewide. At the grade level, Middle’s grade 8 results exceed state results in ELA, math, and science; Elementary’s grade 5 ELA result is 17%, compared with 49% statewide.
Across the three schools, the unweighted average rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 5 points in ELA, 4 in math, and 14 in science, narrowing the average gap with the state in each subject. Improvement was uneven: Middle’s science result rose 43 points, while Senior High’s fell 24 points. SchoolDigger ranks Middle at the 58th percentile, Elementary at the 50th, and Senior High at the 34th; since 2023–2024, those rankings changed by +26, +7, and −31 percentile points, respectively. Student-teacher ratios range from 11 at Senior High to 20 at Middle. As context, all three schools reported the same measure, free/reduced lunch eligible, for 2024–2025: 75% at Elementary, 72% at Senior High, and 69% at Middle.
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