All five Clovis Unified middle schools are California Schools To Watch after Granite Ridge Intermediate was added to the elite lista Monday.

Clovis Unified is the first district in the state to have all its middle schools in a program that marks junior high school achievement.

Granite Ridge's recognition comes five years after the school opened and "shows that our team there has already established a strong culture of academic excellence," dicho Janet E. Young, Clovis Unified superintendent. It came on Granite Ridge's first application to the program, which requires that schools be open at least...