Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle

Located at 9101 Brabham Dr., in Huntington Beach, California, Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle is a medium-sized middle-grades school that works with 690 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Fountain Valley Elementary.

Across the 10 schools in Fountain Valley Elementary (6,010 students total), Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 13% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle is one campus in the mix.

Newland (William T.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle has decreased 5%, going from 728 students in 2018 to 690 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 57% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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