Cedar Middle

Cedar Middle is a middle-grades school of well-populated scale in Hesperia, California, run under Hesperia Unified, serveing 1,061 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 61% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Across the 25 schools in Hesperia Unified (23,188 students total), Cedar Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cedar Middle logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school shows 15% White, 7% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at school resources, Cedar Middle lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.7:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cedar Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.6%; Cedar Middle posts 21.3%, -24.3 points below that line.

In the broader community, San Bernardino County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Cedar Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Mesquite Trails Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cedar Middle comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cedar Middle's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,221 (now 1,061). Hispanic enrollment moved from 65% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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