Woodlake Valley Middle

Woodlake Valley Middle is one of the modestly sized 6-8 campuss in Woodlake, California, run under Woodlake Unified, with 483 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 659.

Woodlake Valley Middle is one of 6 schools operated by Woodlake Unified, a district that works with 2,081 students overall.

On demographics, Woodlake Valley Middle reports that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 6% White. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Woodlake Valley Middle shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Woodlake Valley Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Woodlake Valley Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodlake Valley Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.1%; this one delivers 22.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Tulare County shows median household income runs about $71,300, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Woodlake Valley Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woodlake High, around 0.2 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Woodlake Valley Middle comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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