Glen Edwards Middle

Glen Edwards Middle is a junior high of mid-tier scale in Lincoln, California, part of Western Placer Unified, caters to 815 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Across the 14 schools in Western Placer Unified (8,030 students total), Glen Edwards Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Glen Edwards Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 40% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Glen Edwards Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at Glen Edwards Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Placer County's rate of about 33%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glen Edwards Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -13.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Placer County shows median household income runs about $115,998, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Glen Edwards Middle is one.

The closest other public school is First Street Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glen Edwards Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Glen Edwards Middle's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 896 (now 815). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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