Leslie Middle School

Leslie Middle School operates as a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Salem, Oregon, overseen by Salem-Keizer SD 24J. Current enrollment sits at 735 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Leslie Middle School sits 49% above that benchmark.

Leslie Middle School is one of 65 schools operated by Salem-Keizer SD 24J, a district that works with 37,776 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Leslie Middle School logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 37% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Leslie Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), Leslie Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Morningside Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leslie Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leslie Middle School has fell 9%, going from 804 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 60% to 49% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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