Gustine Middle

Set in Gustine, California, Gustine Middle is a compact intermediate school, part of Gustine Unified. It works with 370 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 44% below typical.

Gustine Unified runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,627 students. Gustine Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Gustine Middle shows that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 7% White. By comparison, Merced County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gustine Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.1%; Gustine Middle posts 12.5%, -16.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Merced County) logs that median household earnings sit near $65,510, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Merced County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), of which Gustine Middle is one.

Gustine Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Gustine Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gustine Middle at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gustine Middle has declined 14%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 370 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 83% to 91%. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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