Casimir Middle

Casimir Middle, a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Torrance, California, one of the schools within Torrance Unified, enrolls 617 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 31 schools in Torrance Unified (21,890 students total), Casimir Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Casimir Middle shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Asian, 12% multiracial, 8% White, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Casimir Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Casimir Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.3%.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Casimir Middle is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Casimir Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 667 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 37% to 32% across the same window.

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