📍 250 Salinas Rd., Watsonville, Monterey County, 95076
Pajaro Middle is a State/Public serving middle age pupils, located in Watsonville, Monterey County. The school has 440 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Nicole Marsh. It is part of the Pajaro Valley Unified school district. It serves grades 6–8 in a suburban setting. The school employs 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 20.6:1.
Pajaro Middle enrolls 440 students across grades 6–8. The student body is 51% male and 49% female. A teaching staff of 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 20.6:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino, <1% White and <1% Asian.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 435 | 99% |
| White | 4 | <1% |
| Asian | 1 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
433 of the school's 440 students (98%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Pajaro Middle is located in a suburban setting (NCES locale: Suburb, Small). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families.
Pajaro Middle is one of 34 schools in Pajaro Valley Unified, based in Watsonville, California. The district serves 16,588 students district-wide and employs 831 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 440 students, Pajaro Middle is close to the district average of about 488 students per school.