Edendale Middle

Edendale Middle, an intimate middle school in San Lorenzo, California, operated by San Lorenzo Unified, instructs 483 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Within San Lorenzo Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 7,936 students, Edendale Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Edendale Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Black, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Edendale Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Edendale Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.8%; actual is 9.7%, a gap of -19.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Edendale Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hillside Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edendale Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Edendale Middle at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 25.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 699 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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