Washington Intermediate

Washington Intermediate is a moderately sized intermediate school in Dinuba, California, one of the schools within Dinuba Unified. The school works with 916 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 39% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Dinuba Unified runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,242 students. Washington Intermediate is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Washington Intermediate logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, On paper, Washington Intermediate has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Washington Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tulare County) records that median household income runs about $71,300, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Washington Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is John F. Kennedy Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Washington Intermediate comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 982 students in 2018 compared to 916 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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