R. M. Miano Elementary

R. M. Miano Elementary is a big elementary campus in Los Banos, California, one of the schools within Los Banos Unified. The school educates 778 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 67% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Banos Unified runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 11,020 students. R. M. Miano Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, R. M. Miano Elementary reports that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, R. M. Miano Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Merced County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,510 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. R. M. Miano Elementary is one of 117 public schools in Merced County (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students).

The closest other public school is Transitional Kindergarten Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, R. M. Miano Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. R. M. Miano Elementary's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 925 (now 778). Class-load math has narrowed: from 29.8:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 in 2025.

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