Boron Junior-Senior High

Boron Junior-Senior High is a senior high of tiny scale in Boron, California, run under Muroc Joint Unified, hosting 253 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 70% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Muroc Joint Unified runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,803 students. Boron Junior-Senior High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Boron Junior-Senior High records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% White, 11% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Boron Junior-Senior High has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Boron Junior-Senior High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.7%; Boron Junior-Senior High posts 13.6%, -30.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Boron Junior-Senior High is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Nearest neighbor: McGowan (Robert) High (Continuation), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Boron Junior-Senior High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Boron Junior-Senior High at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 19.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Boron Junior-Senior High's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 263 (now 253). Over the same period, the White share fell from 49% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.