Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High

Located at 938 Wildwood Rd., in Arbuckle, California, Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High is an intimate junior high that caters to 321 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Pierce Joint Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 659.

Pierce Joint Unified comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,447 students; Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 16% White. By comparison, Colusa County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Colusa County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,672 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Colusa County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,732 students), Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation), around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High. On composite proficiency, Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 361 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 73% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.