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Glen A. Wilson High
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 19 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Glen A. Wilson High
Glen A. Wilson High operates as an expansive 9-12 campus in Hacienda Heights, California, one of the schools within Hacienda la Puente Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,456 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 74% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.
Within Hacienda la Puente Unified, which oversees 35 schools and 16,260 students, Glen A. Wilson High is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Glen A. Wilson High lists that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 45% Hispanic, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Glen A. Wilson High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Glen A. Wilson High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Glen A. Wilson High sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 40.7%; actual is 69.5%, +28.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Glen A. Wilson High is one campus in the mix.
Bixby 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 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glen A. Wilson High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.8%.
Glen A. Wilson High operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. Glen A. Wilson High's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,523 (now 1,456). Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 39% to 48%.
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