Fairfax Junior High

Fairfax Junior High is a mid-tier intermediate school in Bakersfield, California, operated by Fairfax Elementary. The school enrolls 609 students in grades 5 through 8.

Fairfax Elementary runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,667 students. Fairfax Junior High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Fairfax Junior High reports that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, On paper, Fairfax Junior High has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Fairfax Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fairfax Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kern County put the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Fairfax Junior High is one.

The closest other public school is Mira Monte High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairfax Junior High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairfax Junior High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Fairfax Junior High's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 589 (now 609). Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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