Mission Middle

Mission Middle is a middle school of mid-sized scale in Jurupa Valley, California, one of the schools within Jurupa Unified, serveing 612 students in grades 7 through 8.

Jurupa Unified comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 17,739 students; Mission Middle is among them.

Demographically, Mission Middle lists that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 3% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Mission Middle has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Mission Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Mission Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mission Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.2%; this one delivers 14.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Mission Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

West Riverside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mission Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 823 students in 2018 compared to 612 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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