Vandenberg Middle

As an average-sized middle school in Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, Vandenberg Middle works with 565 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by Lompoc Unified.

Within Lompoc Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 8,896 students, Vandenberg Middle is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Vandenberg Middle reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 29% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 52% of students at Vandenberg Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Barbara County (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vandenberg Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.5%; this one comes in at 29.8%, -18.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Santa Barbara County shows median household earnings sit near $98,161, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Barbara County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), of which Vandenberg Middle is one.

Manzanita Public Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Vandenberg Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 668 students in 2018 compared to 565 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 52% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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