Benjamin Franklin Senior High

Benjamin Franklin Senior High is one of the heavily attended four-year high schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 1,284 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Benjamin Franklin Senior High sits 53% above that benchmark.

Benjamin Franklin Senior High is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that caters to 406,887 students overall.

On demographics, Benjamin Franklin Senior High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school records 4% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Benjamin Franklin Senior High logs 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 87% of students at Benjamin Franklin Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Benjamin Franklin Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Benjamin Franklin Senior High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Highland Park Continuation, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Benjamin Franklin Senior High. On composite proficiency, Benjamin Franklin Senior High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Benjamin Franklin Senior High's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,407 (now 1,284). Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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