Emerson Middle

Emerson Middle, an average-sized junior high in Pomona, California, run under Pomona Unified, instructs 664 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Pomona Unified comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 20,422 students; Emerson Middle is among them.

On demographics, Emerson Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Emerson Middle has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Emerson Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Emerson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Emerson Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 18.5%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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 Emerson Middle is one.

Kingsley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Emerson Middle comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Emerson Middle has ticked up 9%, going from 609 students in 2018 to 664 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.