Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Sierra Middle, Bakersfield, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 731
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.9
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 20.4. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 3017 Center St., Bakersfield, CA 93306
- Phone
- (661)631-5470
- District
- Bakersfield City School District
- County
- Kern County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 060363000318
School meals
- Free lunch
- 673
- Reduced-price lunch
- 32
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 70596.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 518Students 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.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Bakersfield City School District
- Curran Middle 973 students
- Walter Stiern Middle 891 students
- Emerson Middle 813 students
- Sequoia Junior High 746 students
- Chipman Junior High 708 students
- Paul L. Cato Middle 694 students
- Washington Middle 639 students
- Compton Junior High 586 students
- Abraham Lincoln Junior High 527 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Bakersfield
- Leon H. Ollivier Middle Greenfield Union
- Standard Middle Standard Elementary School District
- Norris Middle Norris Elementary School District
- Stonecreek Junior High Panama-Buena Vista Union
- Earl Warren Junior High Panama-Buena Vista Union
- Greenfield Middle Greenfield Union
- McKee Middle Greenfield Union
- Rosedale Middle Rosedale Union Elementary
- Tevis Junior High Panama-Buena Vista Union
- Fred L. Thompson Junior High Panama-Buena Vista Union
- Freedom Middle Rosedale Union Elementary
- Fruitvale Junior High Fruitvale Elementary School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
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.