O. J. Actis Junior High

As a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Bakersfield, California, O. J. Actis Junior High works with 681 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by Panama-Buena Vista Union.

O. J. Actis Junior High is one of 25 schools operated by Panama-Buena Vista Union, a district that works with 19,366 students overall.

On the student-mix side, O. J. Actis Junior High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting O. J. Actis Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at O. J. Actis Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, O. J. Actis Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kern County shows median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which O. J. Actis Junior High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Charles H. Castle Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), O. J. Actis Junior High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 673 students in 2018 compared to 681 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 61% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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