Huron Middle, Huron CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Huron Middle

Huron Middle serves grades six through eight in a small agricultural town in Fresno County's San Joaquin Valley. The school sits within Coalinga-Huron Unified, a joint district based about fifteen miles away in Coalinga. The town itself is predominantly Hispanic and Latino, with large household sizes and a renter-majority population. Agriculture is the backbone of daily life; the area swells during harvest season when migrant workers arrive. Housing in the zip code is modest by state standards, and residents often drive to Fresno, about an hour away, for goods and services not available locally.

Enrollment at Huron Middle is small, distributed across three grades. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school's student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic. Available special-population data was not reported in the school records.

Academic performance on California's standardized assessments is low across subjects and grades. In English language arts, students show some variation by grade, with the seventh grade performing better than sixth and eighth, though proficiency rates remain under one in five. Mathematics proficiency is considerably weaker, declining as students advance from sixth to eighth grade. Eighth-grade science and the available English language arts results are similarly low. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile among the county's school districts and schools with reported data. Trend data spans only the most recent school year, so longer-term movement cannot be assessed. Social studies results from an older state assessment, while not current, show low proficiency as well.

The school site offers a standard middle-school program within a regular public school structure. No specialized programs, magnet designation, charter status, or alternative pedagogies are noted in available records. Class size, staffing levels, school climate, course breadth, and enrichment offerings were not available in the data provided.

For families evaluating this school, the most salient reality is academic performance: proficiency rates are well below state and county norms across tested subjects. The student population is economically disadvantaged and linguistically diverse, conditions that themselves are not a strength or weakness but a descriptor of who attends. A parent may want to look into directly with the school what interventions, literacy and numeracy supports, and teacher capacity are in place to address the proficiency gap, and what academic trajectory the school aims for its students over the middle grades. Huron Middle is the town's sole middle option; families cannot choose another public middle school nearby without relocating or private school. The high poverty and renter-majority character of the town itself means school-based services such as meals, counseling, and enrichment carry added weight in shaping opportunity.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 612%

School 12% · District 16% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 79%

School 9% · District 10% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 87%

School 7% · District 5% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 610%

School 10% · District 18% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

Grade 719%

School 19% · District 22% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 16% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Science

Grade 87%

School 7% · District 8% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 828%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

This schoolCoalinga-Huron Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.