Edward Harris Jr. Middle

Edward Harris Jr. Middle operates as a sizable middle-grades school in Elk Grove, California, part of Elk Grove Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,187 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 80% bigger than typical.

Elk Grove Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 63,232 students. Edward Harris Jr. Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Edward Harris Jr. Middle logs that the most-represented group is Asian (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 18% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Edward Harris Jr. Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edward Harris Jr. Middle is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is Monterey Trail High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Edward Harris Jr. Middle comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 1,103 students in 2018 compared to 1,187 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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