Toddy Thomas Middle

Set in Fortuna, California, Toddy Thomas Middle is a rural-scale junior high, overseen by Fortuna Elementary. It instructs 233 students across grades 5 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Toddy Thomas Middle sits 65% below that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Fortuna Elementary (1,002 students total), Toddy Thomas Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Toddy Thomas Middle reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 42% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Toddy Thomas Middle reports 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Humboldt County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Toddy Thomas Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 21.5%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Humboldt County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,160 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Toddy Thomas Middle is one of 92 public schools in Humboldt County (combined enrollment of about 17,319 students).

Redwood Preparatory Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Toddy Thomas Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Toddy Thomas Middle at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Toddy Thomas Middle's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 230 (now 233). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 29% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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