Bellflower High

Bellflower High is a four-year high school of expansive scale in Bellflower, California, run under Bellflower Unified, enrolling 1,997 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 138% above the state mean of about 838.

Bellflower Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 9,573 students. Bellflower High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bellflower High reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 6% Asian, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bellflower High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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 Bellflower High is one.

Ernie Pyle Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bellflower High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bellflower High has decreased 19%, going from 2,471 students in 2018 to 1,997 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.