El Sereno Middle

Located at 2839 North Eastern Ave., in Los Angeles, California, El Sereno Middle is a reasonably sized middle-grades school that works with 857 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), El Sereno Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, El Sereno Middle records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, El Sereno Middle has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting El Sereno Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at El Sereno Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Sereno Middle sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 24.8%; actual is 39.8%, +15.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. El Sereno Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Farmdale Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Sereno Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 1,158 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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