Crystal Middle

Crystal Middle, a mid-tier junior high in Suisun City, California, overseen by Fairfield-Suisun Unified, serves 774 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Fairfield-Suisun Unified comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 20,505 students; Crystal Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Crystal Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% Black, 13% Asian, 10% multiracial, 9% White. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Solano County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crystal Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -8.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Solano County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,401 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Crystal Middle is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

Armijo High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crystal Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crystal Middle has edged down 19%, going from 955 students in 2018 to 774 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 44% to 48% over that span.

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