North Mountain Middle

Located at 1202 East Seventh St., in San Jacinto, California, North Mountain Middle is a middle-of-the-pack junior high that works with 953 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within San Jacinto Unified. That puts it 45% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Across the 15 schools in San Jacinto Unified (10,273 students total), North Mountain Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, North Mountain Middle reports that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 9% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, North Mountain Middle lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting North Mountain Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, North Mountain Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 17.3%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which North Mountain Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Estudillo Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Mountain Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 22.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Mountain Middle has declined 12%, going from 1,079 students in 2018 to 953 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 69% to 79%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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