Sinaloa Middle

Summary:

Sinaloa Middle is a public middle school located in Simi Valley, California, serving grades 6-8 with a total enrollment of 775 students. It is part of the Simi Valley Unified School District, which is ranked 667 out of 1,568 districts in California and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Sinaloa Middle faces several challenges, including lower academic performance compared to the district and state averages, with proficiency rates in English Language Arts/Literacy ranging from 30.04% to 44.83% and in mathematics from 17.13% to 33.1%. The school has also experienced a significant increase in chronic absenteeism, rising from 5.2% in 2020-2021 to 26.4% in 2022-2023, which is notably higher than the district and state averages. Additionally, Sinaloa Middle has a relatively high percentage of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, with 49.16% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch in 2022-2023.

When comparing Sinaloa Middle to other nearby middle schools, some interesting findings emerge. Schools in the Conejo Valley Unified and Oak Park Unified districts, such as Colina Middle, Redwood Middle, Lindero Canyon Middle, and Medea Creek Middle, consistently outperform Sinaloa Middle academically and have lower rates of chronic absenteeism and free/reduced-price lunch recipients. In contrast, Chaparral Middle and Mesa Verde Middle, both in the Moorpark Unified School District, have academic performance and student demographics that are more comparable to Sinaloa Middle.


Detail:

Public 6-8

 601 Royal Ave.
       Simi Valley, CA  93065-4346


(805) 520-6830

District: Simi Valley Unified

SchoolDigger Rank:
1447th of 2,777 California Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $7,424 Help


Students who attend Sinaloa Middle usually attend:

High:    Royal High

Feeder schools for Sinaloa Middle:

Elementary:    Arroyo Elementary
    Berylwood Elementary
    Madera Elementary
    Park View Elementary
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Student/teacher ratio:  22.1 Help
Number of students:  707

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
46.3%
White:
42.0%
Asian:
4.7%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  53.6% Help


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Performance Trends
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Compare Details Sinaloa Middle ranks worse than 52.1% of middle schools in California. It also ranks last among 3 ranked middle schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 40.25. (See more...)
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Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Sinaloa Middle has the smallest middle school student body size in the Simi Valley Unified School District. Racial makeup is: Hispanic (46.3%), White (42%), Asian (4.7%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 53.6% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. This is the highest percentage in the Simi Valley Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Sinaloa Middle is 22.1, which is the lowest among 3 middle schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District! (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Sinaloa Middle is $7,424. 1 middle schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District spend more per student.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Sinaloa Middle:

SchoolDigger ranks Sinaloa Middle 1447th of 2777 California public middle schools. (See Sinaloa Middle in the ranking list.)

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Simi Valley Unified:

SchoolDigger ranks Simi Valley Unified 667th of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for Sinaloa Middle

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Rank History for all students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 78.64 308th 1769 82.6%
2005 81.98 256th 1777 85.6%
2006 75.56 366th 1804 79.7%
2007 81.76 272nd 1999 86.4%
2008 78.75 316th 2005 84.2%
2009 77.64 334th 2063 83.8%
2010 71.48 516th 2179 76.3%
2011 75.95 388th 2236 82.6%
2012 73.79 481st 2259 78.7%
2013 76.91 403rd 2379 83.1%
2015 76.14 514th 2477 79.2%
2016 72.11 612th 2497 75.5%
2017 65.22 772nd 2508 69.2%
2018 60.17 843rd 2480 66.0%
2019 59.29 927th 2715 65.9%
2021 49.10 400th 894 55.3%
2022 48.83 1213th 2740 55.7%
2023 49.76 1172nd 2802 58.2%
2024 40.25 1447th 2777 47.9%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 52.64 296th 554 46.6%
2022 29.04 482nd 665 27.5%
2024 62.01 267th 699 61.8%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 58.87 308th 1364 77.4%
2019 33.75 928th 1442 35.6%
2021 41.20 175th 363 51.8%
2022 33.58 1044th 1540 32.2%
2023 44.84 582nd 1529 61.9%
2024 30.92 1179th 1477 20.2%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 35.77 893rd 1538 41.9%
2024 28.67 1143rd 1550 26.3%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 39.08 1287th 2230 42.3%
2019 35.93 1465th 2369 38.2%
2021 30.53 518th 721 28.2%
2022 36.63 1452nd 2458 40.9%
2023 40.36 1320th 2549 48.2%
2024 28.86 1826th 2575 29.1%
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Rank History for Female students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 57.81 848th 2262 62.5%
2019 55.30 927th 2380 61.1%
2021 41.62 399th 738 45.9%
2022 44.27 1212th 2509 51.7%
2023 45.49 1175th 2547 53.9%
2024 38.19 1394th 2546 45.2%
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Rank History for Disabled students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 51.16 476th 1369 65.2%
2019 64.33 350th 1491 76.5%
2021 51.30 121st 354 65.8%
2022 42.17 709th 1531 53.7%
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Rank History for Male students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 60.77 756th 2273 66.7%
2019 60.75 788th 2407 67.3%
2021 55.06 300th 763 60.7%
2022 52.06 998th 2527 60.5%
2023 52.38 994th 2558 61.1%
2024 40.86 1316th 2547 48.3%
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Rank History for Asian students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 41.32 482nd 700 31.1%
2019 39.34 506th 745 32.1%
2022 31.47 536th 733 26.9%
2023 41.68 485th 718 32.5%
2024 51.55 417th 741 43.7%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 46.36 1011th 2072 51.2%
2019 46.48 1042nd 2213 52.9%
2022 33.61 1502nd 2359 36.3%
2023 34.67 1469th 2391 38.6%
2024 32.75 1535th 2383 35.6%
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Rank History for White students at Sinaloa Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 45.15 814th 1496 45.6%
2019 45.03 868th 1602 45.8%
2022 43.38 857th 1555 44.9%
2023 40.66 911th 1552 41.3%
2024 27.69 1101st 1535 28.3%
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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Enrollment information for Sinaloa Middle

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 736 21 60 133 14 n/a n/a 0 964
1989 702 23 63 131 17 n/a n/a 0 936
1990 679 25 59 140 16 n/a n/a 0 919
1991 719 32 62 159 15 n/a n/a 0 987
1992 736 29 53 169 12 n/a n/a 0 999
1993 732 26 52 193 6 n/a n/a 0 1009
1994 712 15 62 199 7 n/a n/a 0 995
1995 657 15 73 212 11 n/a n/a 0 968
1996 657 15 73 212 11 n/a n/a 0 968
1997 437 9 44 149 10 n/a n/a 0 649
1998 549 16 51 173 16 n/a n/a 0 805
1999 575 21 54 168 10 n/a n/a 0 828
2000 668 21 59 166 6 n/a n/a 0 920
2001 729 21 67 185 8 n/a n/a 0 1010
2002 843 17 84 212 18 n/a n/a 0 1174
2003 843 17 84 212 18 n/a n/a 0 1174
2004 858 23 83 235 12 n/a n/a 0 1211
2005 804 30 84 244 6 n/a n/a 1 1169
2006 802 27 86 243 9 n/a n/a 7 1174
2007 767 25 99 226 6 n/a n/a 8 1131
2008 752 27 100 226 6 n/a n/a 0 1111
2009 785 21 90 247 5 6 14 0 1168
2010 719 18 92 250 5 3 8 0 1095
2011 697 14 102 255 8 4 15 0 1095
2012 650 24 102 322 12 3 23 0 1136
2013 596 25 103 327 6 2 20 0 1079
2014 582 14 101 306 3 1 21 0 1028
2015 511 9 95 296 2 1 29 0 943
2016 477 10 98 293 2 1 33 0 914
2017 469 14 95 300 1 1 39 0 919
2018 469 15 83 315 1 0 32 0 915
2019 419 5 88 334 1 1 42 0 890
2020 442 5 68 355 0 1 32 0 903
2021 394 8 52 319 0 1 33 0 807
2022 378 13 51 326 1 2 37 0 808
2023 355 18 55 315 1 1 30 0 775
2024 297 17 33 327 0 1 30 2 707

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Sinaloa Middle

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 964 41.8 23.0 n/a
1989 936 41.8 22.3 n/a
1990 919 39.7 23.1 n/a
1991 987 38.8 25.4 n/a
1992 999 39.4 25.3 12.5
1993 1009 42.8 23.6 16.4
1994 995 43.0 23.1 17.5
1995 968 39.5 24.5 20.4
1996 968 39.5 24.5 20.4
1997 649 27.5 23.6 20.3
1998 805 36.0 22.4 19.4
1999 828 36.0 23.0 17.9
2000 920 36.0 25.6 17.5
2001 1010 42.4 23.8 16.7
2002 1174 47.8 24.6 16.6
2003 1174 47.8 24.6 16.6
2004 1211 49.2 24.6 15.6
2005 1169 46.0 25.4 17
2006 1174 46.9 25.0 22.3
2007 1131 46.2 24.5 19.5
2008 1111 52.8 21.0 22.4
2009 1168 46.9 22.0 24.7
2010 1095 47.0 23.3 25.5
2011 1095 n/a n/a 26.1
2012 1136 44.4 25.5 n/a
2013 1079 43.2 24.9 28.5
2014 1028 42.4 24.2 30.4
2015 943 39.0 24.1 27.7
2016 914 38.0 24.0 32.2
2017 919 36.4 25.2 34.2
2018 915 39.6 23.1 37.2
2019 890 37.5 23.7 36.4
2020 903 n/a n/a 37
2021 807 35.9 22.4 29.9
2022 808 35.2 22.9 43.4
2023 775 33.4 23.2 49.2
2024 707 31.9 22.1 53.6

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Sinaloa Middle

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 964 41.8 23.0 n/a
1989 936 41.8 22.3 n/a
1990 919 39.7 23.1 n/a
1991 987 38.8 25.4 n/a
1992 999 39.4 25.3 12.5
1993 1009 42.8 23.6 16.4
1994 995 43.0 23.1 17.5
1995 968 39.5 24.5 20.4
1996 968 39.5 24.5 20.4
1997 649 27.5 23.6 20.3
1998 805 36.0 22.4 19.4
1999 828 36.0 23.0 17.9
2000 920 36.0 25.6 17.5
2001 1010 42.4 23.8 16.7
2002 1174 47.8 24.6 16.6
2003 1174 47.8 24.6 16.6
2004 1211 49.2 24.6 15.6
2005 1169 46.0 25.4 17
2006 1174 46.9 25.0 22.3
2007 1131 46.2 24.5 19.5
2008 1111 52.8 21.0 22.4
2009 1168 46.9 22.0 24.7
2010 1095 47.0 23.3 25.5
2011 1095 n/a n/a 26.1
2012 1136 44.4 25.5 n/a
2013 1079 43.2 24.9 28.5
2014 1028 42.4 24.2 30.4
2015 943 39.0 24.1 27.7
2016 914 38.0 24.0 32.2
2017 919 36.4 25.2 34.2
2018 915 39.6 23.1 37.2
2019 890 37.5 23.7 36.4
2020 903 n/a n/a 37
2021 807 35.9 22.4 29.9
2022 808 35.2 22.9 43.4
2023 775 33.4 23.2 49.2
2024 707 31.9 22.1 53.6

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Sinaloa Middle

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2018 $7,424

Data source: California Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Sinaloa Middle

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 927th of 2715 Middle schoolsRanks 1172nd of 2802 Middle schools
 7.7%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Sinaloa Middle)60.341.4
 18.9%
   6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Simi Valley Unified)51.545.9
 5.5%
   6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)48.544.2
 4.3%
6th Grade Mathematics (Sinaloa Middle)51.225.2
 26%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Simi Valley Unified)45.333.2
 12.1%
   6th Grade Mathematics (California)38.533.2
 5.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Sinaloa Middle)49.641.4
 8.2%
   7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Simi Valley Unified)49.547.3
 2.2%
   7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)51.447.4
 3.9%
7th Grade Mathematics (Sinaloa Middle)39.631.7
 7.9%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Simi Valley Unified)40.433
 7.4%
   7th Grade Mathematics (California)37.933.2
 4.7%
8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Sinaloa Middle)47.645.9
 1.7%
   8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Simi Valley Unified)49.342.9
 6.4%
   8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)49.445.7
 3.8%
8th Grade Mathematics (Sinaloa Middle)36.828.7
 8%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Simi Valley Unified)39.428.1
 11.3%
   8th Grade Mathematics (California)36.629.9
 6.7%
8th Grade Science (Sinaloa Middle)36.929.5
 7.4%
   8th Grade Science (Simi Valley Unified)37.526.7
 10.8%
   8th Grade Science (California)30.828.8
 2.1%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students890775
 12.9%
African American518
 260%
American Indian11
Asian8855
 37.5%
Hispanic334315
 5.7%
Pacific Islander11
White419355
 15.3%
Two or More Races4230
 28.6%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients36.4%49.2%
 12.8%


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Frequently Asked Questions about Sinaloa Middle

In the 2023-24 school year, 707 students attended Sinaloa Middle.

Students at Sinaloa Middle are 46% Hispanic, 42% White, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more races, 2% African American.

Sinaloa Middle ranks 1447th of 2777 California middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

Students who attend Sinaloa Middle usually go on to attend Royal High


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