Middle · California
Aptos Junior High
Free meals for allAptos Junior High, a public middle school in Aptos, California: grades 7–8, 587 students, 22.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Pajaro Valley Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 587
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.7
- Students per teacher
- 22.0
- Grades
- 7–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 63% of middle schools in California
Median 21.0 · 1,371 schools compared
More students per teacher than 93% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 57% of middle schools in California
Median 644 · 1,373 schools compared
Larger than 57% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on California's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
California: 47%43%proficient
−1.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 50% of middle schools in California
Median 43% · 1,351 middle schools compared
538 students tested, grades 7, 8 · Smarter Balanced; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
California: 38%36%proficient
Unchanged from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 62% of middle schools in California
Median 29% · 1,351 middle schools compared
534 students tested, grades 7, 8 · Smarter Balanced; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 7–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize suburb
- Run by
- Pajaro Valley Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Pajaro Valley Unified.
Location
- Address
- 1001 Huntington Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
- Phone
- (831)688-3234
- City or town
- Aptos
- County
- Santa Cruz County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Brighton MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 585 | 20.9 | 58% | 42% |
Shoreline MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 478 | 18.4 | 50% | 36% |
Rolling Hills MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 588 | 21.1 | 19% | 7.8% |
| 6–8 | 409 | 17.8 | 60% | 40% | |
Cesar E. Chavez MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 548 | 20.3 | 15% | 8.0% |
E. A. Hall MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 491 | 21.8 | 9.4% | 3.3% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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