Leon H. Ollivier Middle

Leon H. Ollivier Middle is one of the substantial middle-grades schools in Bakersfield, California, operated by Greenfield Union, with 1,152 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

Greenfield Union runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,860 students. Leon H. Ollivier Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Leon H. Ollivier Middle lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 5% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Leon H. Ollivier Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Leon H. Ollivier Middle sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 23.7%; actual is 40.5%, +16.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kern County put the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Leon H. Ollivier Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Horizon Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Leon H. Ollivier Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 1,093 students in 2018 compared to 1,152 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 83% to 88% across the same window.

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