Edison Middle

Edison Middle, a small intermediate school in Bakersfield, California, overseen by Edison Elementary, works with 489 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Edison Middle sits 26% below that benchmark.

Edison Elementary runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,106 students. Edison Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Edison Middle logs that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 7% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Kern County's rate of about 76%.

After controlling for student poverty, Edison Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.0%; this one delivers 20.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kern County) shows that median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Edison Middle is one.

Orangewood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edison Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edison Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 489 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 83% to 89% across the same window.

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