Manzanita Middle

Manzanita Middle, a rural-scale middle-grades school in Richmond, California, run under Manzanita Middle District, caters to 92 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Manzanita Middle sits 86% below that benchmark.

Operationally, Manzanita Middle answers to Manzanita Middle District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Manzanita Middle logs that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, Manzanita Middle lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

In the area at large, census data for Contra Costa County shows the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Manzanita Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lovonya DeJean Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manzanita Middle.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. Manzanita Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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