Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8

Mendota Junior High, Mendota, CA

CEP schoolMendota Junior High is a public middle school in Mendota, part of Mendota Unified. It enrolled 612 students in 2024-25, with 21.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 612
Teachers (FTE): 28.0
Students per teacher: 21.9
Grades: 7 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 22.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school21.9

District22.7

California21.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1258 East Belmont Ave., Mendota, CA 93640
Phone: (559)655-4301
District: Mendota Unified
County: Fresno County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID: 060002209293

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 576
Reduced-price lunch: 20
Free or reduced-price lunch: 59697.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 438Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.