Mountain View Middle

As a minimally staffed middle-grades school in Turlock, California, Mountain View Middle enrolls 166 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Chatom Union. Enrollment runs roughly 75% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Chatom Union runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 557 students. Mountain View Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mountain View Middle shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder is composed of 28% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mountain View Middle has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mountain View Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of -8.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate median household income runs about $81,468, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mountain View Middle is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

The closest other public school is Chatom Elementary, roughly 3.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Mountain View Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Mountain View Middle's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 176 (now 166). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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