Bassett Senior High

As a mid-sized four-year high school in La Puente, California, Bassett Senior High teaches 747 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Bassett Unified.

Bassett Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,798 students. Bassett Senior High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bassett Senior High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder reads as 6% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bassett Senior High is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.2%; this one delivers 40.5%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Bassett Senior High is one.

The closest other public school is Nueva Vista Continuation High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bassett Senior High comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bassett Senior High has contracted 26%, going from 1,012 students in 2018 to 747 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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