California Middle

California Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Sacramento, California, operated by Sacramento City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 782 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Within Sacramento City Unified, which oversees 73 schools and 37,657 students, California Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, California Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 19% White, 12% Asian, 11% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, California Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. California Middle is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is C. K. McClatchy High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around California Middle. On composite proficiency, California Middle comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at California Middle has shrank 15%, going from 919 students in 2018 to 782 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 39% to 47%. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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