Yolo Junior High

Yolo Junior High is a medium-sized middle school with an address in Newman, California. It educates 738 students in grades 6 through 8.

Newman-Crows Landing Unified runs Yolo Junior High along with 8 other schools, enrolling 3,085 students in total.

Federal enrollment data show Yolo Junior High is 82% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 10% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Stanislaus County, the Hispanic share is about 50%. The school's diversity index is 31%, meaning two students picked at random have a 31% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

At Yolo Junior High, 38 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 19.4:1. On average, middle schools in California have 20.7:1, compared with 19.4:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 74% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Stanislaus County average 71%.

Based on student poverty, the model expects 36.0% at Yolo Junior High; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.6%.

Stanislaus County has about 553,990 residents, and the median household income is $81,468, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Besides Yolo Junior High, Stanislaus County has 189 other public schools.

Von Renner Elementary is located about 0.5 miles from Yolo Junior High. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Yolo Junior High is 4th of 5 on proficiency.

The NCES locale for Yolo Junior High is Town: Distant, which covers schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

Over 4 years, Yolo Junior High's enrollment declined 5%, to 738. By 2024-25, the school had 19.4 students per teacher, compared with 21.1 in 2020-21.

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