Jeffrey Trail Middle

Set in Irvine, California, Jeffrey Trail Middle is a large junior high, one of the schools within Irvine Unified. It caters to 1,049 students across grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 59% bigger than typical.

Irvine Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 37,948 students; Jeffrey Trail Middle is among them.

Demographically, Jeffrey Trail Middle shows that Asian students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 16% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Jeffrey Trail Middle records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jeffrey Trail Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Jeffrey Trail Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cypress Village Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jeffrey Trail Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Jeffrey Trail Middle's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,117 (now 1,049). Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 in 2025.

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