Taylor Middle, Millbrae CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Taylor Middle

Taylor Middle serves grades six through eight in Millbrae, a small residential Peninsula community of roughly fifty thousand residents centered around its BART and Caltrain station. The school sits on a dispersed campus model rather than downtown; all eligible students in the grade band are assigned to Taylor, making it the sole middle school feeding into Mills High School in the San Mateo Union High School District.

The school enrolls roughly seven hundred students, with a student body that is substantially Asian, followed by Hispanic, white, and multiracial peers. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. The school does not report data on students with IEPs or English learners, which may reflect the nature of the enrollment or reporting practices; you may want to ask the school directly about support services for students with disabilities or language support if that matters to your family.

On California's state assessments for 2024-25, Taylor's overall proficiency runs in the mid-range. English language arts performs somewhat better than math across the grades, with grade seven ELA proficiency notably stronger than grade six or eight. Math proficiency drops modestly as students move from grade six through eight. Grade eight science proficiency sits at the lower end of the scale. These results position Taylor above the midpoint among districts in San Mateo County on overall proficiency, a meaningful indicator that the school is performing better than roughly half its county neighbors, though not at the high end. One prior data point from social studies testing in 2012-13 showed stronger proficiency there, though that assessment system has since been replaced. The school offers no data on attendance or discipline.

Millbrae Elementary School District, Taylor's parent district, has recently moved to reshape its aging facilities through a school bond passed in November 2024, which will fund classroom upgrades, laboratory improvements, and infrastructure repairs across all five schools, with a new property tax added to fund the work. The district also approved an extended parcel tax in 2023 to support science, technology, engineering, and math instruction and to restore arts and music programs. In May 2025, the district adopted a new mathematics curriculum district-wide, beginning implementation in August 2025; this is a significant pedagogical shift affecting how math is taught. These changes suggest an active district focused on updating instructional practices and infrastructure, though they also come with ongoing property tax costs families should understand.

Millbrae itself is a city in transition. The downtown and El Camino Real corridor are experiencing transit-oriented growth, with mixed-use development underway and hundreds of residential units approved, though growth remains concentrated there rather than throughout the community. Housing values are substantial, reflecting the Peninsula market and proximity to San Francisco. The city's economy centers on small businesses, retail, and restaurants rather than major industry, with SFO and its hospitality sector nearby providing employment and customer bases. The Millbrae transit station is an anchor, offering BART and Caltrain access and serving as a regional hub.

Taylor Middle operates in a setting of modest socioeconomic diversity within an overall affluent region, with proficiency results in the middle-to-upper range for San Mateo County but not at the highest tier. The school is the only middle school option in Millbrae; there is no choice or competition at this level.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 664%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 761%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 774%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 875%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

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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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income73%33 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income58%Higher-income78%21 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income45%Higher-income69%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income43%Higher-income69%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income36%Higher-income67%31 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income32%Higher-income65%33 pp gap