Tevis Junior High

Tevis Junior High is a junior high of reasonably sized scale in Bakersfield, California, overseen by Panama-Buena Vista Union, caters to 807 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Tevis Junior High sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

Panama-Buena Vista Union comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 19,366 students; Tevis Junior High is among them.

Demographically, Tevis Junior High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. Compared to Kern County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Tevis Junior High has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tevis Junior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Kern County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tevis Junior High is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Sing Lum Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tevis Junior High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 780 students in 2018 compared to 807 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 52% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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