Padilla-Pace Middle

Padilla-Pace Middle is an intimate intermediate school in Brawley, California, one of the schools within Brawley Elementary. The school educates 445 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Brawley Elementary runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,883 students. Padilla-Pace Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Padilla-Pace Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest looks like 4% White.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Padilla-Pace Middle has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Padilla-Pace Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Imperial County put median household income runs about $57,681, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Imperial County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), of which Padilla-Pace Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Miguel Hidalgo Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Padilla-Pace Middle. On composite proficiency, Padilla-Pace Middle comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

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