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If you could change one rule at Mesa Linda Middle, what would it be?
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Enrollment
735
Middle
DISTRICT 774 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ADELANTO ELEMENTARY·NCES 060171008288
Mesa Linda Middle
13001 Mesa Linda Rd., Victorville, CA 92392 · (760) 246-6363 · San Bernardino County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL735 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of California public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.5:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
538 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 259 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 259 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 217 | 30% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
11.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.2pp since 2014
Math
7.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 1.2% | 10.6% | 20.7% | 67.5% |
| Math | 2.2% | 5.1% | 13.9% | 78.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 11.8% | 7.3% |
| 2023-24 | 9.8% | 2.2% |
| 2022-23 | 10.1% | 2.7% |
| 2021-22 | 9.6% | 2.5% |
| 2018-19 | 16.5% | 4.9% |
| 2017-18 | 15.2% | 5.7% |
| 2016-17 | 14.2% | 5.2% |
| 2015-16 | 20.0% | 7.0% |
| 2014-15 | 15.0% | 5.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
7.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mesa Linda Middle
Mesa Linda Middle's state test result (7.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa Linda Middle this school | 735 | 73.2% | 7.8% |
| Endeavour Middle Lancaster | 805 | 81.7% | 12.2% |
| Gifford C. Cole Middle Lancaster | 697 | 82.1% | 16.1% |
| Columbia Middle Adelanto | 754 | 71.4% | 9.3% |
| Imogene Garner Hook Junior High Victorville | 665 | 82.4% | 17.3% |
| Amargosa Creek Middle Lancaster | 859 | 85.9% | 19.5% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mesa Linda Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Bernardino County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 7.8% | #1,218 of 1,224 | #74 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.3% | #1,190 of 1,227 ▲ 33 | #73 of 76 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.8% | #1,219 of 1,227 ▲ 3 | #74 of 76 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #446 of 1,214 | #35 of 73 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 735 | #533 of 1,377 | #42 of 79 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #169 of 1,279 | #6 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #513 of 1,278 | #19 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.2% | #683 of 1,329 | #50 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.8% | #450 of 930 | #26 of 56 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
735
-151 (-17%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 880
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 21.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 735 | 41.7 | 17.6:1 | 73% (538) |
| 2023-24 | 726 | 39.8 | 18.2:1 | 80% (583) |
| 2022-23 | 775 | 40.6 | 19.1:1 | 77% (600) |
| 2020-21 | 886 | 42 | 21.1:1 | 73% (649) |
| 2017-18 | 883 | 38 | 23.2:1 | 72% (635) |
| 2015-16 | 805 | 35 | 23.0:1 | 85% (681) |
| 2010-11 | 996 | N/A | N/A | 77% (764) |
| 2000-01 | 880 | 34 | 25.9:1 | 62% (549) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mesa Linda Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (883 to 735); teachers up 10% (38 to 41.7).
About Mesa Linda Middle
Mesa Linda Middle is one of the public schools in Victorville, California. It is a medium-sized middle school. It educates 735 students in grades 6 through 8.
Mesa Linda Middle is among 15 schools run by Adelanto Elementary, which serves 7,660 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Mesa Linda Middle, at 60%. Smaller groups are 27% Black, 7% multiracial, and 4% White. The school's diversity index is 56%, meaning two students picked at random have a 56% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Mesa Linda Middle employs 41.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.6:1. This ratio sits 3.1 below the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 73% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in San Bernardino County average 74%.
Mesa Linda Middle is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of California public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Mesa Linda Middle is among the bottom 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 36.6%. Actual: 7.8%.
Mesa Linda Middle is located in San Bernardino County, where the median household income is $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Mesa Linda Middle is one of 583 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, Morgan Kincaid Preparatory, is about 0.4 miles from Mesa Linda Middle. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 27.7%; Mesa Linda Middle's is 7.8%, ranking 8th of 8.
Mesa Linda Middle falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 17% from its 2020-21 level of 886. The ratio of students to teachers went from 21.1:1 to 17.6:1 over the same years.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
San Bernardino County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,197,104
Census ACS
Median income
$85,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
393,648 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Adelanto Elementary
- Melva Davis Academy of ExcellenceMiddle · 833 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Morgan Kincaid PreparatoryElementary · 690 students
- George Visual and Performing Arts Magnet and MiddleElementary · 685 students
- Victoria Magathan ElementaryElementary · 551 students
- Eagle Ranch ElementaryElementary · 535 students
Other schools in Victorville
- Victor Valley HighHigh · 2,255 students
- Excelsior CharterHigh · 2,170 students
- Silverado HighHigh · 2,165 students
- University PreparatoryHigh · 1,136 students
- Cobalt Institute of Math and ScienceHigh · 1,058 students
- Liberty ElementaryElementary · 1,014 students
Nearby schools
- Morgan Kincaid Preparatory0.4 mi · 690
- Eagle Ranch Elementary0.5 mi · 535
- Vista Verde Elementary1.0 mi · 774
- Cobalt Institute of Math and Science1.3 mi · 1,058
- Liberty Elementary1.4 mi · 1,014
- Silverado High1.4 mi · 2,165
Frequently asked questions
About Mesa Linda MiddleHow many students attend Mesa Linda Middle?
Mesa Linda Middle enrolls approximately 735 students in grades 06-08.
Is Mesa Linda Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mesa Linda Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Mesa Linda Middle?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at Mesa Linda Middle.
What is the student diversity at Mesa Linda Middle?
Student demographics at Mesa Linda Middle are roughly 4% White, 60% Hispanic, 27% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Mesa Linda Middle in?
Mesa Linda Middle is part of Adelanto Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.