BP STEM Academy

BP STEM Academy is a middle school of reasonably sized scale in Baldwin Park, California, overseen by Baldwin Park Unified, serveing 565 students in grades 3 through 8.

Baldwin Park Unified comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 9,856 students; BP STEM Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, BP STEM Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest reads as 11% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, BP STEM Academy lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BP STEM Academy sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 26.9%; actual is 47.8%, +20.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. BP STEM Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Margaret Heath Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BP STEM Academy. On composite proficiency, BP STEM Academy comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BP STEM Academy has grew 22%, going from 464 students in 2018 to 565 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 92% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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