Toyon Middle

Toyon Middle, a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Valley Springs, California, part of Calaveras Unified, enrolls 522 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Calaveras Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,841 students. Toyon Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Toyon Middle reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 27% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Toyon Middle has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Toyon Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.1%; Toyon Middle posts 15.9%, -30.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Calaveras County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,647 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Calaveras County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,261 students), of which Toyon Middle is one.

Mountain Oaks is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Toyon Middle at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 22.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Toyon Middle has grew 19%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 71% to 62% over that span.

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