Applied Technology Center

Located at 1200 West Mines Ave., in Montebello, California, Applied Technology Center is a micro-enrollment secondary school that serves 295 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Montebello Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 65% leaner than typical.

Montebello Unified comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 19,149 students; Applied Technology Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, Applied Technology Center logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Applied Technology Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Applied Technology Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Applied Technology Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.8%; this one delivers 39.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Applied Technology Center is one campus in the mix.

Montebello Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Applied Technology Center comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Applied Technology Center's enrollment has edged down 46% since 2018, when it stood at 546 (now 295). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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