Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle

Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Orangevale, California, part of San Juan Unified. Current enrollment sits at 708 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle is one of 67 schools operated by San Juan Unified, a district that educates 39,171 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle shows that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Green Oaks Fundamental Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle. On composite proficiency, Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Louis Pasteur Fundamental Middle has grew 10%, going from 646 students in 2018 to 708 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 77% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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