Winters Middle

Winters Middle is a tight-knit junior high in Winters, California, overseen by Winters Joint Unified. The school instructs 367 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Winters Joint Unified comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,635 students; Winters Middle is among them.

On demographics, Winters Middle reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest reads as 27% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Winters Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Winters Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Winters Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.5%; this one comes in at 18.0%, -25.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Yolo County reports that median household earnings sit near $91,752, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Yolo County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), of which Winters Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shirley Rominger Intermediate, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Winters Middle. On composite proficiency, Winters Middle comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Winters Middle's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 367). Class-load math has widened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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