Dolores Huerta Middle

Set in Burbank, California, Dolores Huerta Middle is a moderately sized middle-grades school, part of Burbank Unified. It works with 931 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% above the state mean of about 659.

Across the 20 schools in Burbank Unified (14,169 students total), Dolores Huerta Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dolores Huerta Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 37% White, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, On paper, Dolores Huerta Middle has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dolores Huerta Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.3%; Dolores Huerta Middle posts 39.9%, -21.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Dolores Huerta Middle is one.

The closest other public school is William McKinley Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dolores Huerta Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dolores Huerta Middle has contracted 12%, going from 1,062 students in 2018 to 931 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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