Diamond View Middle

Diamond View Middle, a modestly sized intermediate school in Susanville, California, one of the schools within Susanville Elementary, educates 288 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 56% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Susanville Elementary runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 984 students. Diamond View Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Diamond View Middle lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Native American, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Lassen County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Lassen County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Diamond View Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lassen County) logs that median household earnings sit near $67,403, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lassen County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,757 students), Diamond View Middle is one campus in the mix.

Lassen Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Diamond View Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 26.5:1 today.

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