Cesar Chavez Middle

As an average-sized 6-8 campus in Lynwood, California, Cesar Chavez Middle instructs 882 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Lynwood Unified. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Lynwood Unified, which oversees 17 schools and 10,851 students, Cesar Chavez Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Cesar Chavez Middle records that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 2% Black. 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, On paper, Cesar Chavez Middle has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.6:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cesar Chavez Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cesar Chavez Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thurgood Marshall Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cesar Chavez Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Cesar Chavez Middle's enrollment has rose 19% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 882). Class-load math has fell: from 27.2:1 in 2018 to 25.6:1 in 2025.

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