Main Street Middle

Main Street Middle is one of the middle-of-the-pack intermediate schools in Soledad, California, one of the schools within Soledad Unified, with 754 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Main Street Middle is one of 10 schools operated by Soledad Unified, a district that teaches 4,805 students overall.

On demographics, Main Street Middle lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Main Street Middle has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monterey County (around 76%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Main Street Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 23.2%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Monterey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which Main Street Middle is one.

Soledad Transition Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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 Main Street Middle at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 28.3%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Main Street Middle's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 778 (now 754). Class-load math has tightened: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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