Garey High

Set in Pomona, California, Garey High is a large four-year high school, one of the schools within Pomona Unified. It educates 1,567 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 87% above typical.

Garey High is one of 37 schools operated by Pomona Unified, a district that enrolls 20,422 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Garey High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest breaks down as 2% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Garey High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Garey High is one.

Lexington Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garey High. On composite proficiency, Garey High comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 1,881 students in 2018 compared to 1,567 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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