Vail Ranch Middle

Vail Ranch Middle operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Temecula, California, run under Temecula Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 765 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Temecula Valley Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 26,274 students. Vail Ranch Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Vail Ranch Middle records that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 31% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Vail Ranch Middle has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Vail Ranch Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.5%; this one delivers 54.6%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Vail Ranch Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Pauba Valley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vail Ranch Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 953 students in 2018 compared to 765 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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