Esparto Middle

Located at 26058 Country Road 21A, in Esparto, California, Esparto Middle is a rural-scale intermediate school that educates 241 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Esparto Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Esparto Middle sits 63% below that benchmark.

Esparto Middle is one of 4 schools operated by Esparto Unified, a district that educates 992 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Esparto Middle logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 16% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Yolo County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Esparto Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.3%; this one delivers 21.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Yolo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,752 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Yolo County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), Esparto Middle is one campus in the mix.

Esparto Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Esparto Middle at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 28.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Esparto Middle has edged up 9%, going from 222 students in 2018 to 241 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 21% to 16%.

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