El Capitan Middle

El Capitan Middle operates as an average-sized middle-grades school in Fresno, California, run under Central Unified. Current enrollment sits at 738 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Central Unified runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 15,956 students. El Capitan Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, El Capitan Middle lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 17% Asian, 7% Black, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

After controlling for student poverty, El Capitan Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Fresno County put median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), El Capitan Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McKinley Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Capitan Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.8%.

El Capitan Middle operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Capitan Middle has rose 4%, going from 712 students in 2018 to 738 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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