Baldwin Park High

Baldwin Park High, a high-enrollment secondary school in Baldwin Park, California, one of the schools within Baldwin Park Unified, works with 1,260 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Across the 17 schools in Baldwin Park Unified (9,856 students total), Baldwin Park High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Baldwin Park High shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, The school employs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Baldwin Park High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Baldwin Park High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Baldwin Park High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of +9.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Baldwin Park High is one.

Central Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Baldwin Park High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Baldwin Park High's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 1,868 (now 1,260). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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