Bell Gardens High

Bell Gardens High is a large senior high in Bell Gardens, California, run under Montebello Unified. The school educates 2,046 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 144% above typical.

Montebello Unified runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 19,149 students. Bell Gardens High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bell Gardens High lists that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Bell Gardens High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bell Gardens 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 25.0%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that 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%. Bell Gardens High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Cesar E. Chavez Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bell Gardens High at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 26.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Bell Gardens High's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 2,752 (now 2,046). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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