Lewis Flamson Junior High

As a moderately sized junior high in Paso Robles, California, Lewis Flamson Junior High works with 884 students from grades 7 through 8, run under Paso Robles Joint Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 34% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

Paso Robles Joint Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,902 students; Lewis Flamson Junior High is among them.

Demographically, Lewis Flamson Junior High shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder breaks down as 30% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lewis Flamson Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Luis Obispo County put the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Lewis Flamson Junior High is one campus in the mix.

Paso Robles Independent Study Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lewis Flamson Junior High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewis Flamson Junior High has expanded 24%, going from 714 students in 2018 to 884 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 62% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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