El Monte Middle

El Monte Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Orosi, California, part of Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 844 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so El Monte Middle sits 28% above that benchmark.

Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,815 students. El Monte Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, El Monte Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%); the rest breaks down as 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at El Monte Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), El Monte Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.7%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Tulare County put median household earnings sit near $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), El Monte Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Orosi High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts El Monte Middle at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 37.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. El Monte Middle's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 914 (now 844).

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