Standley Middle

Located at 6298 Radcliffe Dr., in San Diego, California, Standley Middle is a moderately sized 6-8 campus that hosts 813 students (grades 6 through 8), part of San Diego Unified. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 23% above typical.

Standley Middle is one of 174 schools operated by San Diego Unified, a district that hosts 94,828 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Standley Middle records that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Standley Middle has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Standley Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Standley Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 64.5%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Standley Middle is one.

Curie 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 Standley Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Standley Middle at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 1,034 students in 2018 compared to 813 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 34% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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