Summary:
ZIP code 84104 has one middle school, Glendale Middle, serving grades 6–8 in Salt Lake City. The school enrolls 678 students and is part of the Salt Lake District. Families should know that the school serves an area with substantial economic need: 97.2% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. Because there is only one middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful benchmarks are district and Utah averages.
Academic results at Glendale Middle were well below district and state averages across every reported subject and grade in 2025–2026. About 23% of the school’s combined English language arts, math, and science results showed proficiency, compared with roughly 44% for the Salt Lake District and 46% statewide. Mathematics was the biggest concern: only 6.9% of sixth graders were proficient, while seventh-grade math was stronger at 29.2%. Science was the school’s best-performing subject, especially eighth-grade science at 41.4%, although that remained below district and state results. English language arts proficiency increased from 13.4% in sixth grade to 24.6% in eighth grade, but remained substantially below comparison averages.
The school ranked 200th of 217 Utah schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the eighth percentile, and has remained near the bottom of statewide rankings in recent years. Results over time were mixed: seventh-grade math improved by 10 percentage points, while sixth- and eighth-grade math declined; science was mostly stable with modest improvement overall. Chronic absenteeism was 25.7%, better than the district’s 29.3% but higher than Utah’s 23.8%, meaning attendance remains an important concern. Parents may want to ask about sixth-grade transition support, math intervention, attendance programs, and the practices contributing to relatively stronger eighth-grade science performance.
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