John Barrett Middle

John Barrett Middle operates as a mid-sized middle-grades school in Carmichael, California, run under San Juan Unified. Current enrollment sits at 802 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so John Barrett Middle sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

San Juan Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 39,171 students. John Barrett Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, John Barrett Middle records that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the resource side, John Barrett Middle shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.2:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, John Barrett Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.7%; actual is 31.9%, a gap of -14.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. John Barrett Middle is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

Thomas Kelly Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John Barrett Middle at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 26.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Barrett Middle has increased 18%, going from 681 students in 2018 to 802 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 60% to 54%.

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