Cesar E. Chavez Middle

Located at 6650 North Magnolia Ave., in San Bernardino, California, Cesar E. Chavez Middle is a substantial middle-grades school that enrolls 1,107 students (grades 6 through 8), run under San Bernardino City Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Cesar E. Chavez Middle sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.

San Bernardino City Unified runs 72 schools in total, collectively educating 44,080 students. Cesar E. Chavez Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cesar E. Chavez Middle shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% White, 6% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Cesar E. Chavez Middle logs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cesar E. Chavez Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 31.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) reports that median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Cesar E. Chavez Middle is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

North Verdemont Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cesar E. Chavez Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 37.3%.

Cesar E. Chavez Middle operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cesar E. Chavez Middle has climbed 10%, going from 1,006 students in 2018 to 1,107 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 75% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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