Borrego Springs Middle

Borrego Springs Middle is a junior high of tiny scale in Borrego Springs, California, overseen by Borrego Springs Unified, caters to 83 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 87% smaller than typical.

Borrego Springs Unified comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 344 students; Borrego Springs Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Borrego Springs Middle lists that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Borrego Springs Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Borrego Springs Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Borrego Springs Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 18.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) logs that median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Borrego Springs Middle is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Borrego Springs High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Borrego Springs Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.9%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 95 students in 2018 compared to 83 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 17% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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