Public school / Middle
Erle Stanley Gardner Middle
Temecula, California
- NCES ID
- 060002811187
- District
- Temecula Valley Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Erle Stanley Gardner Middle is a public middle school in Temecula, California, run by Temecula Valley Unified. It enrols 1,044 students — the 7889th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,044
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
23.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
23.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Temecula Valley Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Great Oak High3,043 students
- 2Chaparral High3,030 students
- 3Temecula Valley High2,864 students
- 4Bella Vista Middle1,396 students
- 5Erle Stanley Gardner Middle1,044 students
- 6Temecula Middle954 students
- 7James L. Day Middle930 students
- 8French Valley Elementary880 students
- Enrollment+120.3%
- Teachers+109.5%
- Students per teacher+7.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−65.5%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory