Dartmouth Middle

Dartmouth Middle, a high-enrollment intermediate school in Hemet, California, operated by Hemet Unified, instructs 1,113 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Dartmouth Middle sits 69% above that benchmark.

Hemet Unified runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 22,778 students. Dartmouth Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dartmouth Middle reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 21% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dartmouth Middle has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Dartmouth Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dartmouth Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Dartmouth Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Hemet Dual Language Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dartmouth Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 23.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dartmouth Middle has changed only slightly, going from 1,113 students in 2018 to 1,113 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

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