Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High

Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High is one of the middle-of-the-pack intermediate schools in Davis, California, operated by Davis Joint Unified, with 588 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High is one of 16 schools operated by Davis Joint Unified, a district that teaches 8,241 students overall.

Demographically, Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 26% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Yolo County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Yolo County shows median household earnings sit near $91,752, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Yolo County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), of which Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High is one.

Da Vinci Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.7%.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High has declined 19%, going from 723 students in 2018 to 588 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 44%.

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