General Grant Middle

As an intimate middle-grades school in Reedley, California, General Grant Middle hosts 526 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Kings Canyon Joint Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 20% below the state mean of about 659.

Across the 21 schools in Kings Canyon Joint Unified (9,696 students total), General Grant Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, General Grant Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest looks like 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), General Grant Middle ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.1%; General Grant Middle posts 51.5%, +26.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which General Grant Middle is one.

Lincoln Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), General Grant Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. General Grant Middle's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 526).

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