Berendo Middle

Set in Los Angeles, California, Berendo Middle is an intimate intermediate school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 552 students across grades 6 through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Berendo Middle records that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Black, 2% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Berendo Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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 Berendo Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Monsenor Oscar Romero Charter Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berendo Middle. On composite proficiency, Berendo Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 552 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 95% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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