Bridges Academy

Located at 1200 West Cinnamon Dr., in Lemoore, California, Bridges Academy is a minimally staffed junior high that enrolls 1 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Lemoore Union Elementary. Enrollment runs roughly 100% below the state mean of about 659.

Lemoore Union Elementary comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,186 students; Bridges Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bridges Academy shows that nearly all students (100%) are Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Bridges Academy has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 1.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that median household earnings sit near $70,995, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Kings County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students), Bridges Academy is one campus in the mix.

Freedom Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bridges Academy.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 80%: 5 students in 2018 compared to 1 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 40% to 100%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 5.0:1 in 2018 to 1.0:1 today.

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