Mae Hensley Junior High

Mae Hensley Junior High, a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Ceres, California, run under Ceres Unified, caters to 636 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Within Ceres Unified, which oversees 23 schools and 13,665 students, Mae Hensley Junior High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Mae Hensley Junior High lists that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 11% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Mae Hensley Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Stanislaus County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mae Hensley Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.0%; this one delivers 24.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Stanislaus County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Mae Hensley Junior High is one.

Carroll Fowler Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mae Hensley Junior High at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mae Hensley Junior High has decreased 13%, going from 734 students in 2018 to 636 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 75% to 82%. Class-load math has fell: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

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