John Muir Middle

Set in Corcoran, California, John Muir Middle is a reasonably sized junior high, operated by Corcoran Joint Unified. It educates 754 students across grades 6 through 8.

Corcoran Joint Unified comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,175 students; John Muir Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, John Muir Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Other groups include 4% White, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting John Muir Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Kings County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, John Muir Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 18.9%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household earnings sit near $70,995, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Kings County's 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students), John Muir Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is John C. Fremont Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Muir Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.6%.

John Muir Middle operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. John Muir Middle's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 735 (now 754). Class-load math has fell: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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