Divisadero Middle

Divisadero Middle is a junior high of medium-sized scale in Visalia, California, part of Visalia Unified, serveing 769 students in grades 7 through 8.

Visalia Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 28,725 students; Divisadero Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Divisadero Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Divisadero Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.2%, the actual is 22.2%, a residual of -10.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Tulare County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Divisadero Middle is one.

Visalia Charter Independent Study is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Divisadero Middle comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 794 students in 2018 compared to 769 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.