Evelyn Hanshaw Middle

Evelyn Hanshaw Middle operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Modesto, California, one of the schools within Modesto City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 650 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Modesto City Elementary runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 14,444 students. Evelyn Hanshaw Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Evelyn Hanshaw Middle records that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 50% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Evelyn Hanshaw Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 19.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Stanislaus County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Evelyn Hanshaw Middle is one.

Bret Harte Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Evelyn Hanshaw Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 20.7%.

Evelyn Hanshaw Middle operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 876 students in 2018 compared to 650 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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