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If you had an hour of school board time for New Vista Middle, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
835
Middle
DISTRICT 728 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LANCASTER ELEMENTARY·NCES 062088005860
New Vista Middle
753 East Avenue K-2, Lancaster, CA 93535 · (661) 726-4271 · Los Angeles County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL835 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of California public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.3:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
762 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 233 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 297 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 305 | 37% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
14.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -12.2pp since 2014
Math
5.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -3.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 2.5% | 12.4% | 22.9% | 62.2% |
| Math | 1.0% | 4.6% | 14.1% | 80.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.8% | 5.6% |
| 2023-24 | 14.1% | 5.3% |
| 2022-23 | 14.4% | 4.9% |
| 2021-22 | 22.2% | 5.6% |
| 2018-19 | 20.9% | 7.9% |
| 2017-18 | 23.2% | 8.6% |
| 2016-17 | 24.1% | 8.9% |
| 2015-16 | 25.0% | 8.0% |
| 2014-15 | 27.0% | 9.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like New Vista Middle
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Vista Middle this school | 835 | 91.3% | 9.9% |
| Animo Legacy Charter Middle Los Angeles | 887 | 94.6% | N/A |
| Bud Carson Middle Hawthorne | 601 | 94.5% | 32.1% |
| California City Middle California City | 478 | 88.1% | 8.9% |
| KIPP Academy of Opportunity Los Angeles | 466 | 83.0% | N/A |
| TEACH Academy of Technologies Los Angeles | 471 | 98.7% | N/A |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where New Vista Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.9% | #1,206 of 1,224 | #247 of 248 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.6% | #1,214 of 1,227 ▼ 6 | #246 of 248 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #1,208 of 1,227 ▼ 4 | #248 of 248 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.7pp | #118 of 1,214 | #13 of 247 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 835 | #389 of 1,377 | #92 of 317 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #224 of 1,279 | #65 of 301 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #502 of 1,278 | #70 of 301 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.3% | #245 of 1,329 | #107 of 312 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #562 of 930 | #144 of 213 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
835
-54 (-6%) vs 2020
-28% since 2000-01, when it was 1,160
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 20.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 835 | 46.1 | 18.1:1 | 91% (762) |
| 2023-24 | 938 | 43.7 | 21.5:1 | 90% (841) |
| 2022-23 | 883 | 41.8 | 21.1:1 | 94% (827) |
| 2020-21 | 889 | 44 | 20.2:1 | 95% (842) |
| 2017-18 | 961 | 44.6 | 21.6:1 | 91% (870) |
| 2015-16 | 933 | 42 | 22.2:1 | 86% (801) |
| 2010-11 | 1,099 | N/A | N/A | 77% (845) |
| 2000-01 | 1,160 | 48 | 24.2:1 | 54% (628) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Vista Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (961 to 835); teachers up 3% (44.6 to 46.1).
About New Vista Middle
Students in Lancaster, California, attend New Vista Middle, a medium-sized middle-grades school. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 835 students. The school's enrollment is 27% larger than the 659 average for middle schools in California.
Lancaster Elementary has 23 schools and 13,765 students, and New Vista Middle is one of those schools.
New Vista Middle's enrollment is 54% Hispanic. Other groups make up 37% Black, 5% White, and 2% multiracial. By the diversity index, New Vista Middle comes in at 57%.
Its teaching staff equals 46.1 full-time positions, a ratio of 18.1:1. That ratio is under the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. Around 91% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is 21 points above the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County.
The allk12 Grade for New Vista Middle is F. Compared with California public middle schools, the school scored higher than 0% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
New Vista Middle posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 9.9%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California are predicted to post 26.1%, so the school is 16.1 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Los Angeles County show that median household income is about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. New Vista Middle is one of 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, which together enroll about 1,265,907 students.
The closest public school to New Vista Middle is Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 24.6%, higher than New Vista Middle's 9.9%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 889 to 835. Students per teacher fell from 20.2 in 2020-21 to 18.1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lancaster Elementary
- Amargosa Creek MiddleMiddle · 859 students
- Endeavour MiddleMiddle · 805 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryElementary · 788 students
- El Dorado ElementaryElementary · 766 students
- West Wind ElementaryElementary · 757 students
- Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 738 students
Other schools in Lancaster
- Assurance Learning AcademyHigh · 3,014 students
- Lancaster HighHigh · 2,688 students
- Eastside HighHigh · 2,631 students
- Antelope Valley HighHigh · 1,498 students
- Sundown ElementaryElementary · 941 students
- Amargosa Creek MiddleMiddle · 859 students
Nearby schools
- Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering0.2 mi · 414
- Jack Northrop Elementary0.2 mi · 645
- iLEAD Lancaster Charter0.6 mi · 771
- Joshua Elementary0.8 mi · 688
- Promise Academy0.9 mi · 45
- Assurance Learning Academy0.9 mi · 3,014
Frequently asked questions
About New Vista MiddleHow many students attend New Vista Middle?
New Vista Middle enrolls approximately 835 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does New Vista Middle serve?
New Vista Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does New Vista Middle have?
New Vista Middle employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1.
What is the student diversity at New Vista Middle?
Student demographics at New Vista Middle are roughly 5% White, 54% Hispanic, 37% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees New Vista Middle?
New Vista Middle is overseen by Lancaster Elementary in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.