Pinon Mesa Middle

Pinon Mesa Middle is a 6-8 campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Phelan, California, run under Snowline Joint Unified, serveing 835 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Snowline Joint Unified, which oversees 12 schools and 8,074 students, Pinon Mesa Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pinon Mesa Middle reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 28% White, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pinon Mesa Middle has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Pinon Mesa Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 22.0%.

Around the school, census data for San Bernardino County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Pinon Mesa Middle is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Nearest neighbor: Snowline Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pinon Mesa Middle. On composite proficiency, Pinon Mesa Middle comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pinon Mesa Middle has increased 7%, going from 777 students in 2018 to 835 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 46% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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