De Anza Middle

De Anza Middle is a close-knit middle-grades school in Ontario, California, part of Ontario-Montclair. The school works with 510 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so De Anza Middle sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Ontario-Montclair runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,640 students. De Anza Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, De Anza Middle lists that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting De Anza Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at De Anza Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, De Anza Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.8%; this one delivers 35.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) records that median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), De Anza Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Euclid Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, De Anza Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

De Anza Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 568 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.