Terrace Middle

As an intimate middle-grades school in Lakeport, California, Terrace Middle hosts 370 students from grades 5 through 8, overseen by Lakeport Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Lakeport Unified runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,361 students. Terrace Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Terrace Middle shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 11% Native American, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Terrace Middle has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Terrace Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Terrace Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.5%; actual is 16.8%, a gap of -15.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,621, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lake County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,167 students), Terrace Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clear Lake High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Terrace Middle comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 36%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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