Middle Schools in Havana CUSD 126

Middle schools in Havana CUSD 126 comprise one school, Havana Junior High School, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 284 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades English language arts (ELA) result was 57%, about 1 percentage point above the state’s 56%; its mathematics result was 36%, about 3 points below the state’s 40%. The most important finding is that results vary sharply by grade, and science shifted from above state results to below them in both tested grades.

There is no school-to-school leader or trailer because Havana Junior High School is the only school listed; the clearest standouts are particular grade results. ELA was 10 points above the state in grade 6 and 6 points above in grade 8, but 15 points below in grade 5 and 7 below in grade 7. Mathematics was 21 points above the state in grade 6 and 8 above in grade 8, while grade 7 was 11 points below; the school’s grade 5 mathematics score is suppressed. These differences show why the all-grades averages do not tell the whole story.

Trends are mixed: mathematics improved from 31% in 2024–2025 to 36% in 2025–2026, narrowing its state gap from 8 points below to 3 below. ELA barely changed—from 57.0% to 57.1%—while the state rose from 53% to 56%, narrowing the school’s advantage from 4 points to 1. Science moved the other way: grade 5 fell from 48% to 36%, and grade 8 from 60% to 48%; both grades went from above the state in 2024–2025 to below it the next year. SchoolDigger assigns 3 stars in each of the last three listed years, while its percentile went from 59 in 2023–2024 to 60 in 2024–2025 and 55 in 2025–2026. Context figures include a 13.8 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 52% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 19% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 20% and state’s 24%; these figures describe the school, not why its results differ.