Berrendos Middle

Berrendos Middle, an one-room-style intermediate school in Red Bluff, California, one of the schools within Antelope Elementary, enrolls 229 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 65% leaner than typical.

Berrendos Middle is one of 4 schools operated by Antelope Elementary, a district that serves 788 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Berrendos Middle shows that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic, 4% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Berrendos Middle shows 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Tehama County's rate of about 72%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berrendos Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 43.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tehama County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Tehama County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), Berrendos Middle is one campus in the mix.

Antelope Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berrendos Middle. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Berrendos Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 251 students in 2018 compared to 229 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.