Antioch Middle

Antioch Middle is a medium-sized junior high in Antioch, California, overseen by Antioch Unified. The school caters to 665 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 25 schools in Antioch Unified (15,111 students total), Antioch Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Antioch Middle records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 19% Black, 5% Asian, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Antioch Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 23.8%; Antioch Middle posts 8.7%, -15.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Contra Costa County shows the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Antioch Middle is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

The closest other public school is Fremont Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Antioch Middle. On composite proficiency, Antioch Middle comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 14.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 746 students in 2018 compared to 665 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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