Pinacate Middle

Pinacate Middle operates as a medium-sized intermediate school in Perris, California, overseen by Perris Union High. Current enrollment sits at 952 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 44% above typical.

Perris Union High runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 11,810 students. Pinacate Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pinacate Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Black. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pinacate Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.1%, the actual is 13.2%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Pinacate Middle is one.

Railway Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pinacate Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 20.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pinacate Middle has decreased 18%, going from 1,167 students in 2018 to 952 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Pinacate Middle community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.