Citrus Middle

Citrus Middle operates as a mid-tier intermediate school in Orange Cove, California, one of the schools within Kings Canyon Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 602 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Kings Canyon Joint Unified runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 9,696 students. Citrus Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Citrus Middle logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Citrus Middle logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Citrus Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Citrus Middle is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 21.8%; this one delivers 37.8%, a residual of +16.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fresno County put median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Citrus Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sheridan Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Citrus Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 649 students in 2018 compared to 602 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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