Woodrow Wallace Middle

Woodrow Wallace Middle is a small intermediate school in Lake Isabella, California, part of Kernville Union Elementary. The school serves 269 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 59% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Kernville Union Elementary runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 764 students. Woodrow Wallace Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Woodrow Wallace Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 4% Native American. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodrow Wallace Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 18.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Kern County shows median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Woodrow Wallace Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Woodrow W. Wallace Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Woodrow Wallace Middle comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodrow Wallace Middle's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 269). The White share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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