John Muir Elementary

John Muir Elementary operates as a big elementary school in Glendale, California, one of the schools within Glendale Unified. Current enrollment sits at 810 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so John Muir Elementary sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, John Muir Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest reads as 34% Hispanic, 8% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting John Muir Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, John Muir Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.4%; this one delivers 46.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), John Muir Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Horace Mann Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John Muir Elementary. On composite proficiency, John Muir Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. John Muir Elementary's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 894 (now 810). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 today.

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