Bill E. Young Jr. Middle

As a close-knit 6-8 campus in Calipatria, California, Bill E. Young Jr. Middle educates 322 students from grades 5 through 8, part of Calipatria Unified. That puts it 51% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Calipatria Unified, which oversees 4 schools and 1,080 students, Bill E. Young Jr. Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Bill E. Young Jr. Middle reports that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 5% White, 4% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Bill E. Young Jr. Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.5%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Imperial County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,681 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Imperial County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), Bill E. Young Jr. Middle is one campus in the mix.

Fremont Primary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Bill E. Young Jr. Middle. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bill E. Young Jr. Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.6%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Bill E. Young Jr. Middle's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 322). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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