Parkway Heights Middle

Summary:

Parkway Heights Middle is a public middle school in South San Francisco, California, serving 612 students in grades 6-8. The school faces significant challenges, as it consistently ranks in the bottom half of California middle schools and underperforms compared to nearby schools and district/state averages.

Parkway Heights Middle's academic performance is a major concern, with only 29.52% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to 49.46% for the South San Francisco Unified district and 47.04% for the state. The school also struggles with high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 7.1% to 33.0%, much higher than the nearby Westborough Middle (16.4%) and Alta Loma Middle (16.3%) schools. Additionally, Parkway Heights has a high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, with 55.07% qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, significantly more than its peers.

Addressing these challenges, such as improving attendance and providing additional support for economically disadvantaged students, could be crucial for Parkway Heights Middle to improve overall student outcomes and provide a better educational experience for its students. The nearby Westborough Middle school, which is part of the same district, serves as a high-performing example, ranking in the top 20% of California middle schools and earning a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.


Detail:

Public 6-8

 650 Sunset Ave.
       South San Francisco, CA  94080-7343


(650) 877-8788

District: South San Francisco Unified

SchoolDigger Rank:
1887th of 2,777 California Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $5,848 Help


Students who attend Parkway Heights Middle usually attend:

High:    South San Francisco High

Feeder schools for Parkway Heights Middle:

Elementary:    Los Cerritos Elementary
    Martin Elementary
    Spruce Elementary
    Sunshine Gardens Elementary

Student/teacher ratio:  15.4 Help
Number of students:  587

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
79.0%
Asian:
12.8%
Two or more races:
2.6%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  58.6% Help


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Compare Details Parkway Heights Middle ranks worse than 68% of middle schools in California. It also ranks last among 3 ranked middle schools in the South San Francisco Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 28.23. (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 Racial makeup is: Hispanic (79%), Asian (12.8%), two or more races (2.6%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 58.6% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. This is the highest percentage in the South San Francisco Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Parkway Heights Middle is 15.4, which is the lowest among 3 middle schools in the South San Francisco Unified School District! (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Parkway Heights Middle is $5,848, which is the highest among 3 middle schools in the South San Francisco Unified School District!
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Parkway Heights Middle:

SchoolDigger ranks Parkway Heights Middle 1887th of 2777 California public middle schools. (See Parkway Heights Middle in the ranking list.)

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South San Francisco Unified:

SchoolDigger ranks South San Francisco Unified 650th of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Parkway Heights Middle

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Rank History for all students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 28.92 1219th 1769 31.1%
2005 32.52 1164th 1777 34.5%
2006 31.73 1211th 1804 32.9%
2007 30.28 1381st 1999 30.9%
2008 27.40 1505th 2005 24.9%
2009 22.40 1678th 2063 18.7%
2010 38.74 1343rd 2179 38.4%
2011 39.56 1374th 2236 38.6%
2012 45.95 1195th 2259 47.1%
2013 40.11 1420th 2379 40.3%
2015 56.62 931st 2477 62.4%
2016 48.98 1136th 2497 54.5%
2017 42.84 1310th 2508 47.8%
2018 31.40 1620th 2480 34.7%
2019 31.46 1731st 2715 36.2%
2021 30.62 609th 894 31.9%
2022 29.51 1801st 2740 34.3%
2023 31.75 1757th 2802 37.3%
2024 28.23 1887th 2777 32.0%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 44.24 533rd 1364 60.9%
2019 38.04 753rd 1442 47.8%
2021 37.97 214th 363 41.0%
2022 34.17 1011th 1540 34.4%
2023 37.57 866th 1529 43.4%
2024 33.85 1018th 1477 31.1%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 41.09 740th 1538 51.9%
2024 22.01 1387th 1550 10.5%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 39.81 1262nd 2230 43.4%
2019 33.06 1558th 2369 34.2%
2021 35.95 462nd 721 35.9%
2022 33.76 1552nd 2458 36.9%
2023 33.98 1602nd 2549 37.2%
2024 26.09 1942nd 2575 24.6%
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Rank History for Homeless students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2024 17.60 369th 394 6.3%
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Rank History for Female students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 31.00 1533rd 2262 32.2%
2019 28.26 1674th 2380 29.7%
2021 29.72 513th 738 30.5%
2022 35.03 1496th 2509 40.4%
2023 32.07 1582nd 2547 37.9%
2024 26.05 1848th 2546 27.4%
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Rank History for Disabled students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 43.56 613th 1369 55.2%
2019 38.53 779th 1491 47.8%
2021 33.11 228th 354 35.6%
2022 39.08 792nd 1531 48.3%
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Rank History for Male students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 31.31 1491st 2273 34.4%
2019 33.42 1510th 2407 37.3%
2021 32.56 489th 763 35.9%
2022 25.41 1829th 2527 27.6%
2023 31.95 1597th 2558 37.6%
2024 30.00 1676th 2547 34.2%
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Rank History for Asian students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 15.16 650th 745 12.8%
2024 39.68 492nd 741 33.6%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Parkway Heights Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 35.00 1334th 2072 35.6%
2019 36.26 1360th 2213 38.5%
2022 33.88 1495th 2359 36.6%
2023 33.95 1487th 2391 37.8%
2024 27.79 1723rd 2383 27.7%
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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 Parkway Heights Middle

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 187 34 70 228 0 n/a n/a 0 519
1989 160 22 84 234 4 n/a n/a 0 504
1990 132 18 87 215 0 n/a n/a 0 452
1991 127 22 58 232 1 n/a n/a 0 440
1992 171 32 90 248 4 n/a n/a 0 545
1993 173 63 135 508 10 n/a n/a 0 889
1994 206 71 140 489 0 n/a n/a 0 906
1995 215 43 126 483 3 n/a n/a 0 870
1996 215 43 126 483 3 n/a n/a 0 870
1997 243 33 130 476 1 n/a n/a 0 883
1998 187 36 127 470 1 n/a n/a 0 821
1999 167 23 161 457 2 n/a n/a 9 819
2000 143 24 149 443 3 n/a n/a 0 762
2001 126 24 148 486 3 n/a n/a 0 787
2002 114 39 149 486 0 n/a n/a 0 788
2003 114 39 149 486 0 n/a n/a 0 788
2004 109 31 142 495 1 n/a n/a 0 778
2005 99 23 123 459 2 n/a n/a 2 708
2006 88 26 110 456 2 n/a n/a 0 682
2007 57 28 105 412 3 n/a n/a 0 605
2008 42 20 102 438 3 n/a n/a 0 605
2009 36 19 74 426 1 20 1 0 577
2010 21 7 31 412 0 10 61 0 542
2011 21 11 30 404 0 8 51 0 525
2012 18 14 39 437 1 8 42 0 559
2013 23 3 42 459 2 8 30 0 567
2014 29 4 43 475 2 8 31 0 592
2015 34 8 72 490 2 7 15 0 628
2016 24 7 79 503 2 8 16 0 639
2017 18 8 86 492 3 9 14 0 630
2018 16 10 63 503 1 8 16 0 617
2019 22 7 60 505 0 7 13 0 614
2020 24 4 62 476 2 7 14 0 589
2021 15 3 61 455 2 6 15 0 557
2022 16 4 64 454 1 11 18 0 568
2023 13 7 73 492 4 5 18 0 612
2024 13 6 75 464 4 10 15 0 587

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 Parkway Heights Middle

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 519 25.0 20.7 n/a
1989 504 25.1 20.0 n/a
1990 452 23.5 19.2 n/a
1991 440 21.3 20.6 n/a
1992 545 21.6 25.2 32.8
1993 889 39.1 22.7 13.8
1994 906 40.2 22.5 39.4
1995 870 38.8 22.4 45.2
1996 870 38.8 22.4 45.2
1997 883 39.0 22.6 43.6
1998 821 39.8 20.6 52
1999 819 36.8 22.3 22.6
2000 762 40.8 18.7 44.4
2001 787 39.3 20.0 45
2002 788 37.7 20.9 47.7
2003 788 37.7 20.9 47.7
2004 778 36.5 21.3 49.2
2005 708 37.0 19.1 42.2
2006 682 36.0 18.9 52.9
2007 605 31.7 19.1 n/a
2008 605 34.7 17.4 63
2009 577 29.8 16.8 71.1
2010 542 28.0 19.3 69
2011 525 n/a n/a 67.6
2012 559 28.8 19.3 n/a
2013 567 29.5 19.1 74.3
2014 592 28.4 20.8 54.1
2015 628 28.0 22.4 62.3
2016 639 32.0 19.9 59.3
2017 630 32.2 19.5 58.9
2018 617 33.0 18.6 59.5
2019 614 33.0 18.6 64.8
2020 589 n/a n/a 56.2
2021 557 33.0 16.8 62.1
2022 568 35.1 16.1 49.1
2023 612 34.3 17.7 55.1
2024 587 37.9 15.4 58.6

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 Parkway Heights Middle

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 519 25.0 20.7 n/a
1989 504 25.1 20.0 n/a
1990 452 23.5 19.2 n/a
1991 440 21.3 20.6 n/a
1992 545 21.6 25.2 32.8
1993 889 39.1 22.7 13.8
1994 906 40.2 22.5 39.4
1995 870 38.8 22.4 45.2
1996 870 38.8 22.4 45.2
1997 883 39.0 22.6 43.6
1998 821 39.8 20.6 52
1999 819 36.8 22.3 22.6
2000 762 40.8 18.7 44.4
2001 787 39.3 20.0 45
2002 788 37.7 20.9 47.7
2003 788 37.7 20.9 47.7
2004 778 36.5 21.3 49.2
2005 708 37.0 19.1 42.2
2006 682 36.0 18.9 52.9
2007 605 31.7 19.1 n/a
2008 605 34.7 17.4 63
2009 577 29.8 16.8 71.1
2010 542 28.0 19.3 69
2011 525 n/a n/a 67.6
2012 559 28.8 19.3 n/a
2013 567 29.5 19.1 74.3
2014 592 28.4 20.8 54.1
2015 628 28.0 22.4 62.3
2016 639 32.0 19.9 59.3
2017 630 32.2 19.5 58.9
2018 617 33.0 18.6 59.5
2019 614 33.0 18.6 64.8
2020 589 n/a n/a 56.2
2021 557 33.0 16.8 62.1
2022 568 35.1 16.1 49.1
2023 612 34.3 17.7 55.1
2024 587 37.9 15.4 58.6

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 Parkway Heights Middle

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2018 $5,848

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

Impact of COVID-19 on Parkway Heights Middle

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 1731st of 2715 Middle schoolsRanks 1757th of 2802 Middle schools
 1.1%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Parkway Heights Middle)26.331.9
 5.7%
   6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (South San Francisco Unified)44.541.1
 3.4%
   6th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)48.544.2
 4.3%
6th Grade Mathematics (Parkway Heights Middle)25.827.6
 1.9%
   6th Grade Mathematics (South San Francisco Unified)41.335.4
 5.9%
   6th Grade Mathematics (California)38.533.2
 5.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Parkway Heights Middle)41.936.4
 5.5%
   7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (South San Francisco Unified)52.349.2
 3.1%
   7th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)51.447.4
 3.9%
7th Grade Mathematics (Parkway Heights Middle)21.423.7
 2.2%
   7th Grade Mathematics (South San Francisco Unified)43.436.5
 6.9%
   7th Grade Mathematics (California)37.933.2
 4.7%
8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Parkway Heights Middle)47.632.9
 14.7%
   8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (South San Francisco Unified)55.944.9
 11%
   8th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)49.445.7
 3.8%
8th Grade Mathematics (Parkway Heights Middle)25.517.2
 8.3%
   8th Grade Mathematics (South San Francisco Unified)41.535
 6.5%
   8th Grade Mathematics (California)36.629.9
 6.7%
8th Grade Science (Parkway Heights Middle)20.111.3
 8.8%
   8th Grade Science (South San Francisco Unified)28.926.2
 2.8%
   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 Students614612
 0.3%
African American77
American Indian04
Asian6073
 21.7%
Hispanic505492
 2.6%
Pacific Islander75
 28.6%
White2213
 40.9%
Two or More Races1318
 38.5%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients64.8%55.1%
 9.8%


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Frequently Asked Questions about Parkway Heights Middle

Students who attend Parkway Heights Middle usually go on to attend South San Francisco High

Parkway Heights Middle ranks 1887th of 2777 California middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

In the 2023-24 school year, 587 students attended Parkway Heights Middle.

Students at Parkway Heights Middle are 79% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 3% Two or more races, 2% White, 2% Pacific Islander, 1% African American.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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