Johnson Middle

Johnson Middle is one of the low-enrollment 6-8 campuss in Westminster, California, operated by Westminster, with 505 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Johnson Middle sits 23% below that benchmark.

Within Westminster, which oversees 16 schools and 7,864 students, Johnson Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Johnson Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment; the rest reads as 29% Asian, 5% White. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Johnson Middle reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Johnson Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Johnson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnson Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 38.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Johnson Middle is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Finley Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Johnson Middle at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 34%: 769 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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