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Enrollment
678
Middle
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 831
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALT LAKE DISTRICT·NCES 490087000492
Glendale Middle
1430 W ANDREW AVE, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84104 · (801) 974-8320 · Salt Lake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL678 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 40% of Utah public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 21.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
659 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 206 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 231 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 241 | 36% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
20.4%
UT avg 41.4% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
18.2%
UT avg 41.8% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.4% | 18.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.9% | 19.1% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
12.3%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Glendale Middle
Glendale Middle's state test result (23.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale Middle this school | 678 | 97.2% | 23.2% |
| Northwest Middle SALT LAKE CITY | 542 | 87.1% | 15.7% |
| Granite Park Jr High SALT LAKE CITY | 800 | 69.6% | 15.7% |
| Salt Lake Center for Science Education Bryant SALT LAKE CITY | 348 | 69.8% | 29.1% |
| Valley Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 546 | 63.2% | 20.1% |
| West Lake Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 724 | 64.2% | 23.4% |
Matched among Utah middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Glendale Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #128 of 136 | #37 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #132 of 140 ▼ 1 | #37 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #133 of 140 no change | #38 of 44 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 678 | #96 of 144 | #31 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #14 of 137 | #3 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.8% | #16 of 137 | #15 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.2% | #1 of 141 | #1 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #27 of 77 | #12 of 25 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
678
-131 (-16%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 558
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 678 | 38.7 | 17.5:1 | 97% (659) |
| 2023-24 | 663 | 39.4 | 16.9:1 | 80% (532) |
| 2022-23 | 680 | 39.7 | 17.1:1 | 84% (568) |
| 2020-21 | 809 | N/A | N/A | 73% (590) |
| 2017-18 | 798 | N/A | N/A | 89% (709) |
| 2015-16 | 816 | N/A | N/A | 93% (762) |
| 2010-11 | 786 | 41 | 19.2:1 | 100% (783) |
| 2000-01 | 598 | 34 | 17.6:1 | 88% (526) |
| 1990-91 | 558 | 31 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glendale Middle.
About Glendale Middle
Glendale Middle is a public small middle school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Enrollment totals 678 students across grades 6 through 8.
The district for Glendale Middle is Salt Lake District, with 39 schools and 20,086 students.
The student body at Glendale Middle is 62% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 11% Pacific Islander, 9% White, 7% Black, and 7% Asian. Among all residents of Salt Lake County, the Hispanic share is about 21%. A diversity index of 59% means there is a 59% chance two randomly chosen students at Glendale Middle are from different groups.
For every teacher at Glendale Middle, there are about 17.5 students; the school has 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Utah, 21.7:1, is higher. There are 659 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 97% of enrollment. Among public schools in Salt Lake County, the average eligibility rate is 34%.
Among Utah public middle schools, Glendale Middle outscored 40%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 12.3% for a school in Utah with Glendale Middle's free or reduced-price lunch share. Glendale Middle posts 23.2%.
For the population of Salt Lake County, the median household earns about $97,494 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Glendale Middle shares Salt Lake County with 324 other public schools.
The closest school to Glendale Middle is Mountain View School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. Glendale Middle is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 25.5% on proficiency, and Glendale Middle is below that at 23.2%.
Glendale Middle is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 16% decline, from 809 to 678.
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Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salt Lake District
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
- Mountain View SchoolElementary · 629 students
- Clayton MiddleMiddle · 567 students
- Northwest MiddleMiddle · 542 students
Other schools in SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Nearby schools
- Mountain View School0.0 mi · 629
- Dual Immersion Academy0.4 mi · 433
- Parkview School0.8 mi · 371
- Riley School0.8 mi · 205
- Roots Charter High School1.1 mi · 218
- Wallace Stegner Academy1.1 mi · 683
Frequently asked questions
About Glendale MiddleHow many students attend Glendale Middle?
Glendale Middle enrolls approximately 678 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Glendale Middle serve?
Glendale Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Glendale Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Glendale Middle is approximately 17.5:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Glendale Middle?
At Glendale Middle, the student body is approximately 9% White, 62% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Glendale Middle public or private?
Glendale Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Salt Lake District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.