Glen Hills Middle

Set in Glendale, Wisconsin, Glen Hills Middle is a medium-sized intermediate school, run under Glendale-River Hills School District. It serves 483 students across grades 4 through 8. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Glendale-River Hills School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 973 students. Glen Hills Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Glen Hills Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 35% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Glen Hills Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.8%; this one delivers 51.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) reports that median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Glen Hills Middle is one.

Thurston Woods Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Glen Hills Middle comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 21.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glen Hills Middle has ticked down 12%, going from 548 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 5% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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