Lakeside Middle

Lakeside Middle is a medium-sized intermediate school in Irvine, California, one of the schools within Irvine Unified. The school works with 629 students in grades 7 through 8.

Irvine Unified runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 37,948 students. Lakeside Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lakeside Middle lists that the most-represented group is Asian (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% White, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Lakeside Middle has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lakeside Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.6%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +9.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lakeside Middle is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stone Creek Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lakeside Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Lakeside Middle's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 746 (now 629). Asian enrollment moved from 39% to 46% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Lakeside Middle typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.