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What's one thing La Vina Middle gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
521
Middle
DISTRICT 553 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DELANO UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 061089011598
La Vina Middle
1331 Browning Rd., Delano, CA 93215 · (661) 721-3601 · Kern County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
411 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 65%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
64.7%
CA avg 47.1% . +29.7pp since 2014
Math
38.3%
CA avg 35.6% . +11.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 30 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
521
-147 (-22%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
19.8:1
was 22.6:1
% White
1%
was 2%
% Hispanic
80%
was 75%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
16%
was 22%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About La Vina Middle
La Vina Middle operates as a close-knit middle school in Delano, California, operated by Delano Union Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 521 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 659.
Delano Union Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,185 students; La Vina Middle is among them.
Looking at the student body, La Vina Middle records that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 16% Asian. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, La Vina Middle has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting La Vina Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, La Vina Middle is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 51.4%, a residual of +18.9 points.
In the broader community, Kern County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. La Vina Middle is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).
Nearest neighbor: Harvest Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, La Vina Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 668 students in 2018 compared to 521 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 22% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.
On this page, members of the La Vina Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Kern County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
915,075
Census ACS
Median income
$70,210
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
279
197,431 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Delano Union Elementary
- PioneerElementary · 1,043 students
- Nueva Vista Language AcademyElementary · 684 students
- Cecil Avenue Math and Science AcademyMiddle · 585 students
- Almond Tree MiddleMiddle · 554 students
- Del Vista Math and Science AcademyElementary · 526 students
- MorningsideElementary · 477 students
Other schools in Delano
- Wonderful College Prep AcademyCombined · 1,845 students
- Robert F. Kennedy HighHigh · 1,394 students
- Cesar E. Chavez HighHigh · 1,318 students
- Delano HighHigh · 1,221 students
- PioneerElementary · 1,043 students
- Nueva Vista Language AcademyElementary · 684 students
Nearby schools
- Harvest Elementary0.1 mi · 365
- Cesar E. Chavez High0.5 mi · 1,318
- Valley High0.7 mi · 71
- Del Vista Math and Science Academy0.7 mi · 526
- Cecil Avenue Math and Science Academy0.7 mi · 585
- Delano High0.8 mi · 1,221
Frequently asked questions
About La Vina MiddleHow many students attend La Vina Middle?
La Vina Middle enrolls approximately 521 students in grades 06-08.
Is La Vina Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
La Vina Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at La Vina Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at La Vina Middle is approximately 19.8:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at La Vina Middle?
Student demographics at La Vina Middle are roughly 1% White, 80% Hispanic, 0% Black, 16% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is La Vina Middle public or private?
La Vina Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Delano Union Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.