Almond Tree Middle

Set in Delano, California, Almond Tree Middle is a small junior high, one of the schools within Delano Union Elementary. It hosts 554 students across grades 6 through 8.

Delano Union Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,185 students; Almond Tree Middle is among them.

On demographics, Almond Tree Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder looks like 10% Asian. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Almond Tree Middle records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Almond Tree Middle ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 24.9%; Almond Tree Middle posts 45.8%, +20.9 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kern County) reports that median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Almond Tree Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Fremont Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Almond Tree Middle at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Almond Tree Middle's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 628 (now 554). Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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