Mojave Jr./Sr. High

Mojave Jr./Sr. High operates as a compact 9-12 campus in Mojave, California, operated by Mojave Unified. Current enrollment sits at 400 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 52% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Within Mojave Unified, which oversees 6 schools and 2,902 students, Mojave Jr./Sr. High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Mojave Jr./Sr. High records that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Black, 9% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Mojave Jr./Sr. High reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Mojave Jr./Sr. High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mojave Jr./Sr. High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.1%; Mojave Jr./Sr. High posts 9.5%, -19.6 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Kern County shows median household earnings sit near $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mojave Jr./Sr. High is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Mojave Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mojave Jr./Sr. High at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 16.7%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mojave Jr./Sr. High has rose 18%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 16% to 9%. Class-load math has rose: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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