Home Street Middle

As a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Bishop, California, Home Street Middle hosts 414 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Bishop Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Home Street Middle sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

Bishop Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 1,910 students. Home Street Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Home Street Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% White, 15% Native American, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Home Street Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Home Street Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Inyo County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,991, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Inyo County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,539 students), of which Home Street Middle is one.

CDS Home Street is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Home Street Middle comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Home Street Middle's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 469 (now 414). White enrollment moved from 36% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Home Street Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.