Marshall Middle

Marshall Middle is a middle-grades school of rural-scale scale in Pomona, California, overseen by Pomona Unified, serveing 249 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 62% below the state mean of about 659.

Pomona Unified runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 20,422 students. Marshall Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Marshall Middle records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% Black, 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Marshall Middle records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Marshall Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marshall Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 29.8%, a residual of +7.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Marshall Middle is one campus in the mix.

Arroyo Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marshall Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marshall Middle at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 25.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Marshall Middle's enrollment has contracted 53% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 249). Class-load math has fell: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Marshall Middle community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.