Willows Intermediate

Willows Intermediate is one of the intimate intermediate schools in Willows, California, one of the schools within Willows Unified, with 464 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Willows Intermediate sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Willows Unified runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,399 students. Willows Intermediate is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Willows Intermediate logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 39% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Native American.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Willows Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Willows Intermediate is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.2%; Willows Intermediate posts 21.5%, -14.7 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Glenn County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,139 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Glenn County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,252 students), Willows Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Glenn County Special Education, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Willows Intermediate. On composite proficiency, Willows Intermediate comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 30%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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