Harry Bridges Span

As a large elementary school in Wilmington, California, Harry Bridges Span enrolls 1,171 students from grades K through 8, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 152% above the state mean of about 465.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Harry Bridges Span is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Harry Bridges Span logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Harry Bridges Span has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harry Bridges Span sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 25.4%; actual is 43.0%, +17.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, 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 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 Harry Bridges Span is one.

Fries Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harry Bridges Span. On composite proficiency, Harry Bridges Span comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Harry Bridges Span's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,212 (now 1,171). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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