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Grange Middle
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Grange Middle
Set in Fairfield, California, Grange Middle is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, operated by Fairfield-Suisun Unified. It instructs 944 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 43% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.
Grange Middle is one of 31 schools operated by Fairfield-Suisun Unified, a district that educates 20,505 students overall.
Demographically, Grange Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% White. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Grange Middle shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Grange Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Grange Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Solano County's rate of about 60%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grange Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.9%; this one delivers 18.2%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Solano County) reports that median household income runs about $100,401, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Solano County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), of which Grange Middle is one.
H. Glenn Richardson is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grange Middle comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.0%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 907 students in 2018 compared to 944 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 64% across the same window.
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