Thomas Edison Elementary

Thomas Edison Elementary, a substantial primary school in Glendale, California, one of the schools within Glendale Unified, teaches 859 students, covering grades K through 6. That puts it 85% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Glendale Unified comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 25,294 students; Thomas Edison Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Thomas Edison Elementary lists that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 41% White, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Thomas Edison Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Thomas Edison Elementary is one.

Theodore Roosevelt Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas Edison Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas Edison Elementary has shrank 7%, going from 926 students in 2018 to 859 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Thomas Edison Elementary community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.