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Parks Junior High School

Education in Fullerton, CaliforniaEducational institutions established in 1972Public middle schools in CaliforniaSchools in Orange County, CaliforniaUse mdy dates from October 2018

D. Russell Parks Junior High School is a junior high school located in Fullerton, California, United States. It serves students in seventh and eighth grade, and is part of the Fullerton School District. The school has been recognized on two separate occasions with a Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award a North American school can receive. Parks' mascot is the Panther. As of the 2018-2019 school year, the school had 1050~1100 students and 38 teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 24.6 compared to the average 19.3.When the school opened, the student population was over 90% Caucasian. With demographic changes in the ensuing years, the school has become majority minority; for 2003–04 its student body was 57% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 15% Caucasian, and 13% African American, and by 2013–14 it was 43% Asian, 29% Hispanic and African American, and 23% Caucasian.In 2018-19 it is 43.1% Asian, 28.5% Hispanic and African American, and 23.4% Caucasian. In 2023-2024, it was 73% Asian and Pacific Islander, 4% African American, 2% Indigenous American, 13% Caucasian, and 8% Hispanic. As documented in the school's application for its second Blue Ribbon award, student test scores greatly exceed state averages, exemplified by the fact that 88.7% of eighth graders taking the California State Standards Test scored "At or Above Proficient," in contrast to 12.4% of students statewide.Parks Junior High School mainly feeds into Sunny Hills High School, Troy High School, and Buena Park High School. All offer International Baccalaureate programs.

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Parks Junior High School
North Parks Road, Fullerton

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92833 Fullerton
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