Tenaya Middle

Tenaya Middle, a reasonably sized intermediate school in Merced, California, operated by Merced City Elementary, enrolls 607 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Merced City Elementary runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,108 students. Tenaya Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Tenaya Middle logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Black, 4% Asian, 3% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Merced County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 27.2:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at Tenaya Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Merced County (around 81%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tenaya Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.9%; this one delivers 19.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Merced County shows median household earnings sit near $65,510, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Tenaya Middle is one of 117 public schools in Merced County (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students).

Nearest neighbor: Alicia Reyes Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tenaya Middle comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 19.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Tenaya Middle's enrollment has climbed 11% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 607).

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Tenaya Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.