Eastside High

Eastside High is a four-year high school of large scale in Lancaster, California, part of Antelope Valley Union High, educateing 2,631 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 214% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Eastside High is one of 13 schools operated by Antelope Valley Union High, a district that teaches 21,202 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Eastside High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 22% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Eastside High reports 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastside High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.7%; this one comes in at 20.4%, -18.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Eastside High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Enterprise Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eastside High comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Eastside High's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 2,342 (now 2,631). Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 today.

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