Walter Reed Middle

Walter Reed Middle operates as a big junior high in North Hollywood, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,580 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Walter Reed Middle sits 140% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Walter Reed Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Walter Reed Middle logs that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 35% White, 12% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at Walter Reed Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Walter Reed Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +10.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Walter Reed Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Colfax Charter Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walter Reed Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.8%.

Walter Reed Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walter Reed Middle has showed little movement, going from 1,584 students in 2018 to 1,580 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 47% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

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