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What's something Almeria Middle does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
772
Middle
DISTRICT 968 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FONTANA UNIFIED·NCES 061392009544
Almeria Middle
7723 Almeria Ave., Fontana, CA 92336 · (909) 357-5350 · San Bernardino County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL772 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of California public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
636 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 184 | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 301 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 287 | 37% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
27.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.3pp since 2014
Math
18.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.1% | 19.3% | 20.8% | 51.9% |
| Math | 7.1% | 10.9% | 22.4% | 59.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.3% | 18.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.4% | 14.9% |
| 2022-23 | 21.5% | 12.7% |
| 2021-22 | 27.6% | 15.2% |
| 2018-19 | 36.2% | 22.4% |
| 2017-18 | 35.4% | 19.9% |
| 2016-17 | 26.1% | 14.3% |
| 2015-16 | 25.0% | 15.0% |
| 2014-15 | 23.0% | 14.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Almeria Middle
Almeria Middle's state test result (21.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almeria Middle this school | 772 | 82.4% | 21.0% |
| Terrace Hills Middle Grand Terrace | 852 | 79.5% | 19.6% |
| Jane Addams Middle Lawndale | 644 | 84.6% | 48.8% |
| Hamilton Middle Long Beach | 748 | 84.6% | 25.7% |
| Arizona Middle Riverside | 804 | 88.3% | 31.4% |
| Creekside Middle Patterson | 907 | 79.1% | 22.1% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Almeria Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #1,018 of 1,224 | #56 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #923 of 1,227 ▲ 45 | #46 of 76 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #1,056 of 1,227 ▲ 16 | #56 of 76 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #724 of 1,214 | #50 of 73 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 772 | #469 of 1,377 | #36 of 79 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.9:1 | #601 of 1,279 | #32 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.4% | #948 of 1,278 | #48 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.4% | #476 of 1,329 | #37 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #781 of 930 | #52 of 56 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
772
+18 (+2%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 1,092
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
was 19.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 772 | 36.9 | 20.9:1 | 82% (636) |
| 2023-24 | 754 | 37.2 | 20.3:1 | 75% (566) |
| 2022-23 | 765 | 37.9 | 20.2:1 | 69% (527) |
| 2020-21 | 754 | 38 | 19.8:1 | 85% (638) |
| 2017-18 | 826 | 38.5 | 21.4:1 | 85% (698) |
| 2015-16 | 813 | 40 | 20.3:1 | 85% (688) |
| 2010-11 | 1,021 | N/A | N/A | 74% (755) |
| 2000-01 | 1,747 | 69 | 25.3:1 | 74% (1,291) |
| 1990-91 | 1,092 | 48 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Almeria Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (826 to 772); teachers down 4% (38.5 to 36.9).
About Almeria Middle
Almeria Middle is classified as a middle school. It is located in Fontana, California. The school has 772 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8.
Fontana Unified oversees Almeria Middle and 43 other schools, with 32,735 students in total.
A large majority of enrollment at Almeria Middle is Hispanic, at 84%. After that, the student body is 7% Black, 4% Asian, and 4% White. Among all residents of San Bernardino County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. The diversity index for Almeria Middle is 29%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 20.9 students per teacher. That is in line with the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. Of all students at Almeria Middle, 82% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in San Bernardino County averages 74%, lower than here.
Among California public middle schools, Almeria Middle outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 21.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 31.3%.
Looking at the county, San Bernardino County, median household income comes to about $85,478, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 583 public schools and about 393,648 students.
Tokay Elementary, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Almeria Middle is 7th among 8 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Almeria Middle was 754 in 2020-21 and 772 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 19.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 20.9:1.
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San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fontana Unified
- Summit HighHigh · 2,725 students
- Fontana HighHigh · 2,534 students
- Fontana A. B. Miller HighHigh · 1,950 students
- Jurupa Hills HighHigh · 1,739 students
- Henry J. Kaiser HighHigh · 1,660 students
- Wayne Ruble MiddleMiddle · 1,394 students
Other schools in Fontana
- Summit HighHigh · 2,725 students
- Fontana HighHigh · 2,534 students
- Options for Youth-ActonHigh · 2,171 students
- Fontana A. B. Miller HighHigh · 1,950 students
- Jurupa Hills HighHigh · 1,739 students
- Henry J. Kaiser HighHigh · 1,660 students
Nearby schools
- Tokay Elementary0.3 mi · 378
- Dorothy Grant Innovations Academy0.9 mi · 682
- Kathy Binks Elementary1.0 mi · 567
- Hemlock Elementary1.0 mi · 426
- Juniper Elementary1.2 mi · 446
- Oleander Elementary1.3 mi · 517
Frequently asked questions
About Almeria MiddleHow large is Almeria Middle?
Almeria Middle enrolls approximately 772 students in grades 06-08.
Is Almeria Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Almeria Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Almeria Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Almeria Middle is approximately 20.9:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Almeria Middle?
At Almeria Middle, the student body is approximately 4% White, 84% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Almeria Middle public or private?
Almeria Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fontana Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.