Birney Tech Academy

Birney Tech Academy, a small elementary school in Pico Rivera, California, operated by El Rancho Unified, enrolls 344 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Within El Rancho Unified, which oversees 13 schools and 6,716 students, Birney Tech Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Birney Tech Academy lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Birney Tech Academy reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 81% of students at Birney Tech Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Birney Tech Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Birney Tech Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: STEAM Academy @ Burke, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Birney Tech Academy at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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