Mesa View Middle

Mesa View Middle operates as a mid-tier middle-grades school in Calimesa, California, one of the schools within Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 717 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,519 students. Mesa View Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mesa View Middle logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school shows 36% White, 3% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mesa View Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Mesa View Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Calimesa Elementary, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mesa View Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mesa View Middle at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Mesa View Middle's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 717). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 48% to 36%.

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