Erle Stanley Gardner Middle

Erle Stanley Gardner Middle, a substantial 6-8 campus in Temecula, California, one of the schools within Temecula Valley Unified, enrolls 1,008 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 53% above the state mean of about 659.

Erle Stanley Gardner Middle is one of 30 schools operated by Temecula Valley Unified, a district that works with 26,274 students overall.

On demographics, Erle Stanley Gardner Middle logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 33% White, 18% Asian, 10% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Erle Stanley Gardner Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) logs that median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Erle Stanley Gardner Middle is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Temecula Luiseno Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Erle Stanley Gardner Middle. On composite proficiency, Erle Stanley Gardner Middle comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.1%.

Erle Stanley Gardner Middle operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 1,225 students in 2018 compared to 1,008 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 40% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 in 2025.

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