San Fernando Middle

San Fernando Middle, a close-knit middle-grades school in San Fernando, California, run under Los Angeles Unified, serves 442 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so San Fernando Middle sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. San Fernando Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, San Fernando Middle reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting San Fernando Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, San Fernando Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), San Fernando Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: San Fernando Institute of Applied Media, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, San Fernando Middle comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. San Fernando Middle's enrollment has decreased 41% since 2018, when it stood at 747 (now 442). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.