Frank J. Zamboni

Frank J. Zamboni is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in Paramount, California, overseen by Paramount Unified, teacheing 650 students in grades 6 through 8.

Paramount Unified comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,623 students; Frank J. Zamboni is among them.

Demographically, Frank J. Zamboni reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder looks like 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Frank J. Zamboni performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of +9.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Frank J. Zamboni is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mark Keppel, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frank J. Zamboni. On composite proficiency, Frank J. Zamboni comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Frank J. Zamboni's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 937 (now 650). Class-load math has fell: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.