Belmont Senior High

Belmont Senior High operates as an intimate four-year high school in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 614 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Belmont Senior High sits 27% below that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Belmont Senior High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belmont Senior High records that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Asian, 2% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Belmont Senior High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Belmont Senior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.5%.

In the surrounding community, 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Belmont Senior High is one.

Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belmont Senior High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 37%: 973 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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