Rancho Medanos Junior High

Rancho Medanos Junior High operates as a reasonably sized intermediate school in Pittsburg, California, run under Pittsburg Unified. Current enrollment sits at 812 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 23% above typical.

Pittsburg Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 10,633 students. Rancho Medanos Junior High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rancho Medanos Junior High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 11% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Rancho Medanos Junior High has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rancho Medanos Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.3%; this one delivers 18.9%.

Across the wider county, Contra Costa County reports that median household earnings sit near $127,229, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Rancho Medanos Junior High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Los Medanos Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rancho Medanos Junior High. On composite proficiency, Rancho Medanos Junior High comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Rancho Medanos Junior High's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 963 (now 812). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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