Piute Middle

Set in Lancaster, California, Piute Middle is a mid-sized middle-grades school, part of Lancaster Elementary. It teaches 729 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 23 schools in Lancaster Elementary (13,765 students total), Piute Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Piute Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Piute Middle shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Piute Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 23.4%; Piute Middle posts 7.0%, -16.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Piute Middle is one.

Phoenix High Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Piute Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Piute Middle at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 18.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 938 students in 2018 compared to 729 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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