Templeton Middle

Located at 925 Old County Rd., in Templeton, California, Templeton Middle is an intimate middle school that caters to 478 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Templeton Unified. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

Templeton Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,214 students; Templeton Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Templeton Middle records that 61% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 23% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 18% of students at Templeton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Templeton Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 68.7%; Templeton Middle posts 48.2%, -20.5 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Luis Obispo County put median household earnings sit near $97,446, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Templeton Middle is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

Templeton Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Templeton Middle comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

Templeton Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 69% to 61%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.