Public school / Middle
Hercules Middle
Hercules, California
- NCES ID
- 063255010757
- District
- West Contra Costa Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hercules Middle is a public middle school in Hercules, California, run by West Contra Costa Unified. It enrols 590 students — the 27709th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
590
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
25.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
28.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within West Contra Costa Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1El Cerrito High1,522 students
- 2Richmond High1,431 students
- 3Pinole Valley High1,280 students
- 4De Anza High1,237 students
- 5John F. Kennedy High823 students
- 6Hercules High734 students
- 7Fred T. Korematsu Middle681 students
- 8Helms Middle591 students
- Enrollment+24.5%
- Teachers+9.5%
- Students per teacher+16.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−57.6%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory