Glendale High

Located at 1440 East Broadway, in Glendale, California, Glendale High is a heavily attended 9-12 campus that hosts 2,066 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Glendale Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 147% larger than typical.

Within Glendale Unified, which oversees 32 schools and 25,294 students, Glendale High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Glendale High logs that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 10% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glendale High has 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Glendale High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glendale High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.7%; Glendale High posts 28.0%, -18.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Glendale High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is John Marshall Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glendale High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glendale High has shrank 7%, going from 2,228 students in 2018 to 2,066 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 48% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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