Bobby Duke Middle

Set in Coachella, California, Bobby Duke Middle is a medium-sized junior high, part of Coachella Valley Unified. It enrolls 648 students across grades 7 through 8.

Coachella Valley Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 15,817 students; Bobby Duke Middle is among them.

On demographics, Bobby Duke Middle logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bobby Duke Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 21.1%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bobby Duke Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Palm View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bobby Duke Middle. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bobby Duke Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.8%.

Bobby Duke Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 714 students in 2018 compared to 648 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.