Florence Nightingale Middle

Florence Nightingale Middle operates as an average-sized middle school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 773 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Florence Nightingale Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Florence Nightingale Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 19% Asian, 2% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Florence Nightingale Middle shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Florence Nightingale Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Florence Nightingale Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Florence Nightingale Middle is one.

Loreto Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Florence Nightingale Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.2%.

Florence Nightingale Middle operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 773 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 24% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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