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.

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