Rancho Milpitas Middle

Rancho Milpitas Middle, an average-sized middle-grades school in Milpitas, California, part of Milpitas Unified, serves 693 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Milpitas Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,076 students. Rancho Milpitas Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Rancho Milpitas Middle logs that Asian students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Rancho Milpitas Middle has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Rancho Milpitas Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Around the school, Santa Clara County reports that median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Rancho Milpitas Middle is one campus in the mix.

John Sinnott Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rancho Milpitas Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rancho Milpitas Middle has held roughly steady, going from 707 students in 2018 to 693 in 2025.

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