Pershing Middle

Set in San Diego, California, Pershing Middle is a mid-tier middle school, run under San Diego Unified. It teaches 980 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Pershing Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Pershing Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Pershing Middle records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Pershing Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Pershing Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pershing Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.3%.

Around the school, census data for San Diego County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Pershing Middle is one.

Gage Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pershing Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

Pershing Middle operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 46%: 673 students in 2018 compared to 980 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 in 2025.

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