Tehipite Middle

Set in Fresno, California, Tehipite Middle is a compact 6-8 campus, part of Fresno Unified. It teaches 481 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 659.

Tehipite Middle is one of 100 schools operated by Fresno Unified, a district that hosts 67,873 students overall.

On demographics, Tehipite Middle shows that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% Black, 6% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at Tehipite Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Tehipite Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 13.8%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Fresno County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tehipite Middle is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

The closest other public school is Webster Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tehipite Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

Tehipite Middle operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.