Jurupa Middle

Located at 8700 Galena St., in Jurupa Valley, California, Jurupa Middle is a high-enrollment junior high that enrolls 1,105 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Jurupa Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Jurupa Middle sits 68% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 24 schools in Jurupa Unified (17,739 students total), Jurupa Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Jurupa Middle shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Jurupa Middle qualify 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), Jurupa Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Riverside County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Jurupa Middle is one.

Stone Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jurupa Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jurupa Middle at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 26.1%.

Jurupa Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Jurupa Middle's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,212 (now 1,105).

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