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Enrollment
882
Middle
DISTRICT 818 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYNWOOD UNIFIED·NCES 062316010902
Cesar Chavez Middle
3898 Abbott Rd., Lynwood, CA 90262 · (310) 886-7300 · Los Angeles County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL882 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of California public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
25.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
841 students
DISTRICT 93% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 456 | 52% |
| Grade 8 | 426 | 48% |
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
29.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +10.6pp since 2014
Math
14.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +2.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.0% | 23.5% | 24.2% | 46.2% |
| Math | 4.9% | 10.0% | 21.9% | 63.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.6% | 14.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.6% | 13.5% |
| 2022-23 | 26.7% | 13.3% |
| 2021-22 | 31.9% | 12.0% |
| 2020-21 | 24.7% | 11.7% |
| 2018-19 | 26.9% | 14.8% |
| 2017-18 | 25.4% | 20.4% |
| 2016-17 | 22.0% | 16.2% |
| 2015-16 | 25.0% | 13.0% |
| 2014-15 | 19.0% | 12.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cesar Chavez Middle
Cesar Chavez Middle's state test result (21.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cesar Chavez Middle this school | 882 | 95.4% | 21.6% |
| Colton Middle Colton | 870 | 92.8% | 19.5% |
| Hollenbeck Middle Los Angeles | 927 | 96.0% | 38.0% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Middle Madera | 865 | 96.9% | 16.1% |
| Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory Los Angeles | 792 | 96.2% | 26.6% |
| Mission Middle Escondido | 855 | 95.9% | 24.9% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cesar Chavez Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,007 of 1,224 | #220 of 248 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #1,025 of 1,227 ▼ 16 | #226 of 248 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #1,000 of 1,227 ▼ 39 | #217 of 248 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #819 of 1,214 | #193 of 247 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 882 | #323 of 1,377 | #79 of 317 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.6:1 | #1,204 of 1,279 | #274 of 301 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.8% | #1,206 of 1,278 | #271 of 301 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.4% | #101 of 1,329 | #51 of 312 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.0% | #52 of 257 | #12 of 38 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
882
+175 (+25%) vs 2020
+14% since 2010-11, when it was 775
Student : Teacher
25.6:1
was 27.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 882 | 34.5 | 25.6:1 | 95% (841) |
| 2023-24 | 846 | 35.9 | 23.6:1 | 96% (816) |
| 2022-23 | 855 | 36.5 | 23.4:1 | 95% (810) |
| 2020-21 | 707 | 26 | 27.2:1 | 95% (675) |
| 2017-18 | 741 | 27.2 | 27.2:1 | 97% (720) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 30 | 24.7:1 | 96% (710) |
| 2010-11 | 775 | N/A | N/A | 83% (647) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cesar Chavez Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (741 to 882); teachers up 27% (27.2 to 34.5).
About Cesar Chavez Middle
Cesar Chavez Middle is a public middle school in Lynwood, California. Classes run from 7 through 8, and the school has 882 students. The average for middle schools in California is about 659 students, so this school is 34% above average.
Lynwood Unified is the district for Cesar Chavez Middle. It has 17 schools and 10,851 students.
The large majority of students at Cesar Chavez Middle, 96%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 2% Black. Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. By the diversity index, Cesar Chavez Middle comes in at 7%.
Cesar Chavez Middle counts 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 25.6 students for each one. Among middle schools in California, the typical ratio is 20.7:1. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County, the school's rate is higher.
Cesar Chavez Middle is graded C by allk12, scoring above 25% of California public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Cesar Chavez Middle is 2.1 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 21.6% actual, 23.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
Census Bureau estimates for Los Angeles County show that median household income is about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. A total of 2,244 public schools operate in Los Angeles County, serving about 1,265,907 students.
The next-closest public school is Thurgood Marshall Elementary, less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Cesar Chavez Middle. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Cesar Chavez Middle ranks 7th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Cesar Chavez Middle had 707 students in 2020-21 and 882 in 2024-25, a 25% gain. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 27.2:1 to 25.6:1.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lynwood Unified
- Lynwood HighHigh · 1,858 students
- Marco Antonio Firebaugh HighHigh · 1,633 students
- Hosler MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Will Rogers ElementaryElementary · 684 students
- Lindbergh ElementaryElementary · 552 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryElementary · 542 students
Other schools in Lynwood
- Lynwood HighHigh · 1,858 students
- Marco Antonio Firebaugh HighHigh · 1,633 students
- Hosler MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Will Rogers ElementaryElementary · 684 students
- Lindbergh ElementaryElementary · 552 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryElementary · 542 students
Other Cesar Chavez Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 2 states are named Cesar Chavez Middle. Cesar Chavez Middle is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Cesar Chavez MiddleUnion City, CA · 990 students
- Cesar Chavez MiddleOceanside, CA · 557 students
- Cesar Chavez MiddleHayward, CA · 453 students
- Cesar Chavez Middle SchoolWACO, TX · 786 students
- Cesar Chavez Middle SchoolMISSION, TX · 625 students
Nearby schools
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary0.1 mi · 511
- Roosevelt Elementary0.2 mi · 445
- Hosler Middle0.6 mi · 754
- San Miguel Elementary0.7 mi · 677
- Lincoln Elementary0.7 mi · 328
- Victoria Avenue Elementary0.9 mi · 272
Frequently asked questions
About Cesar Chavez MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Cesar Chavez Middle?
Cesar Chavez Middle enrolls approximately 882 students in grades 07-08.
Is Cesar Chavez Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cesar Chavez Middle is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at Cesar Chavez Middle?
Approximately 25.6:1 students per teacher at Cesar Chavez Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cesar Chavez Middle?
At Cesar Chavez Middle, the student body is approximately 0% White, 96% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Cesar Chavez Middle public or private?
Cesar Chavez Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lynwood Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.