Cesar E. Chavez Middle

Located at 161 South Plainsburg Rd., in Planada, California, Cesar E. Chavez Middle is an intimate middle school that serves 305 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Planada Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Cesar E. Chavez Middle sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Planada Elementary comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 888 students; Cesar E. Chavez Middle is among them.

On demographics, Cesar E. Chavez Middle records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Merced County runs at roughly 81%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Cesar E. Chavez Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.0%; this one delivers 34.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Merced County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,510 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cesar E. Chavez Middle is one of 117 public schools in Merced County (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students).

Nearest neighbor: Planada Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Cesar E. Chavez Middle. On composite proficiency, Cesar E. Chavez Middle comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.9%.

Cesar E. Chavez Middle operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Cesar E. Chavez Middle's enrollment has rose 20% since 2018, when it stood at 255 (now 305). Class-load math has fell: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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