Suzanne Middle

Set in Walnut, California, Suzanne Middle is a large junior high, overseen by Walnut Valley Unified. It instructs 1,190 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 81% above typical.

Walnut Valley Unified comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 13,992 students; Suzanne Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Suzanne Middle records that 65% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, On paper, Suzanne Middle has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Suzanne Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Suzanne Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Walnut High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Suzanne Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 1,286 students in 2018 compared to 1,190 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 60% to 65%.

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