Green Acres Middle

Green Acres Middle is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in Visalia, California, part of Visalia Unified, with 761 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Visalia Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 28,725 students. Green Acres Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Green Acres Middle reports that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Green Acres Middle has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Green Acres Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Green Acres Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 33.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tulare County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Green Acres Middle is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Creekside Community Day 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, Green Acres Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 758 students in 2018 compared to 761 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 76% to 71%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.