Sinaloa Middle

Sinaloa Middle operates as a mid-sized junior high in Novato, California, one of the schools within Novato Unified. Current enrollment sits at 693 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 14 schools in Novato Unified (7,199 students total), Sinaloa Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sinaloa Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Marin County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 42% of students at Sinaloa Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sinaloa Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marin County indicate median household earnings sit near $149,091, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Marin County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), of which Sinaloa Middle is one.

Lu Sutton Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sinaloa Middle comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Sinaloa Middle's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 826 (now 693). White enrollment moved from 59% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.