Twentynine Palms Junior High

Twentynine Palms Junior High is one of the small 6-8 campuss in Twentynine Palms, California, operated by Morongo Unified, with 413 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Twentynine Palms Junior High sits 37% below that benchmark.

Twentynine Palms Junior High is one of 16 schools operated by Morongo Unified, a district that works with 7,225 students overall.

On demographics, Twentynine Palms Junior High reports that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 37% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Twentynine Palms Junior High has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Twentynine Palms Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Bernardino County) shows that median household income runs about $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Twentynine Palms Junior High is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

Twentynine Palms Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Twentynine Palms Junior High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Twentynine Palms Junior High at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 512 students in 2018 compared to 413 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 45% to 37% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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