Glendale Middle

Glendale Middle operates as a cozy middle-grades school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, run under Salt Lake District. Current enrollment sits at 678 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Salt Lake District runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 20,086 students. Glendale Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Glendale Middle reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Pacific Islander, 9% White, 7% Black, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Glendale Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 12.3%, the actual is 23.2%, a residual of +11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Salt Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Glendale Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mountain View School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glendale Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.5%.

Glendale Middle operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 798 students in 2018 compared to 678 in 2025.

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