Navelencia Middle

Navelencia Middle operates as a close-knit middle school in Reedley, California, one of the schools within Kings Canyon Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Navelencia Middle sits 53% below that benchmark.

Kings Canyon Joint Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 9,696 students; Navelencia Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Navelencia Middle shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Navelencia Middle sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 26.4%; actual is 48.1%, +21.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Navelencia Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Great Western Elementary, roughly 4.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Navelencia Middle at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 40.9%.

Navelencia Middle operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Navelencia Middle's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 313). Class-load math has tightened: from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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