Beulah Payne STEAM Academy

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Inglewood, California, Beulah Payne STEAM Academy enrolls 554 students from grades K through 8, part of Inglewood Unified.

Across the 16 schools in Inglewood Unified (6,727 students total), Beulah Payne STEAM Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beulah Payne STEAM Academy reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 9% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beulah Payne STEAM Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Beulah Payne STEAM Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.8%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the broader community, 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%. Beulah Payne STEAM Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Century Community Charter, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Beulah Payne STEAM Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Beulah Payne STEAM Academy at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 24.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Beulah Payne STEAM Academy's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 554). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 83% over that span.

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