Live Oak Middle

As a close-knit 6-8 campus in Live Oak, California, Live Oak Middle serves 413 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Live Oak Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Live Oak Middle sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Live Oak Unified, which oversees 6 schools and 2,070 students, Live Oak Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Live Oak Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% White, 11% Asian. By comparison, Sutter County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Live Oak Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sutter County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Live Oak Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Sutter County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,704 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Live Oak Middle is one of 46 public schools in Sutter County (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students).

Nearest neighbor: Live Oak Alternative, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Live Oak Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Live Oak Middle's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 413). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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