Fairview Middle

Fairview Middle is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in Gonzales, California, operated by Gonzales Unified. The school teaches 426 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Fairview Middle sits 35% below that benchmark.

Within Gonzales Unified, which oversees 3 schools and 1,961 students, Fairview Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairview Middle shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fairview Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.6%, the actual is 21.8%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Monterey County put the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which Fairview Middle is one.

The closest other public school is La Gloria Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fairview Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

Fairview Middle operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairview Middle has edged down 43%, going from 747 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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