Maywood Middle

Maywood Middle is a middle-grades school of close-knit scale in Corning, California, run under Corning Union Elementary, instructing 515 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Maywood Middle sits 22% below that benchmark.

Corning Union Elementary runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,976 students. Maywood Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Maywood Middle reports that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 18% White. By comparison, Tehama County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Tehama County's rate of about 72%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maywood Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tehama County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,784, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tehama County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), of which Maywood Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Olive View Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maywood Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 23.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 515 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 65% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.