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Public school / Middle

Isbell Middle

Santa Paula, California

NCES ID
060142106109
District
Santa Paula Unified
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Isbell Middle is a public middle school in Santa Paula, California, run by Santa Paula Unified. It enrols 1,010 students — the 8455th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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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

1,010students

8455th nationally, tied with 18

Teachers

47.0FTE

17316th nationally, tied with 865

Students per teacher

21.5students

82942nd nationally, tied with 251

Free or reduced-price lunch

72.2%percent

28868th nationally, tied with 100

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.

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Within Santa Paula 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Santa Paula High1,708 students
  2. 2Isbell Middle1,010 students
  3. 3Glen City Elementary559 students
  4. 4Grace Thille Elementary335 students
  5. 5Barbara Webster Elementary299 students
  6. 6Mckevett Elementary298 students
  7. 7Thelma Bedell Elementary268 students
  8. 8Blanchard Elementary254 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+113.1%
  • Teachers+123.8%
  • Students per teacher−2.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+6.3%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.