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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Melva Davis Academy of Excellence

Victorville, California

NCES ID
060171013994
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Melva Davis Academy of Excellence is a public middle school in Victorville, California, run by Adelanto Elementary. It enrols 827 students — the 13171st 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

827students

13171st nationally, tied with 43

Teachers

43.0FTE

21160th nationally, tied with 1,123

Students per teacher

19.2students

75824th nationally, tied with 393

Free or reduced-price lunch

76.8%percent

24781st nationally, tied with 94

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 Adelanto Elementary

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. 1Melva Davis Academy of Excellence827 students
  2. 2Mesa Linda Middle775 students
  3. 3Columbia Middle735 students
  4. 4Morgan Kincaid Preparatory722 students
  5. 5George Visual and Performing Arts Magnet and Middle676 students
  6. 6Gus Franklin Jr.549 students
  7. 7Victoria Magathan Elementary534 students
  8. 8Eagle Ranch Elementary526 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+74.5%
  • Teachers+104.8%
  • Students per teacher−13.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+13.1%
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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.