White Hill Middle

White Hill Middle is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in Fairfax, California, run under Ross Valley Elementary, enrolling 601 students in grades 6 through 8.

White Hill Middle is one of 5 schools operated by Ross Valley Elementary, a district that caters to 1,679 students overall.

On demographics, White Hill Middle shows that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, White Hill Middle has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 12% of students at White Hill Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marin County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), White Hill Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.4%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marin County indicate median household income runs about $149,091, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), White Hill Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Manor Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around White Hill Middle. On composite proficiency, White Hill Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 808 students in 2018 compared to 601 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 80% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.