Hawthorne High

Hawthorne High operates as a heavily attended secondary school in Hawthorne, California, run under Centinela Valley Union High. Current enrollment sits at 1,675 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 100% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Centinela Valley Union High comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 5,351 students; Hawthorne High is among them.

Demographically, Hawthorne High reports that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% 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 the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Hawthorne High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hawthorne High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.8%; this one delivers 32.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Hawthorne High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Family First Charter, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hawthorne High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 1,922 students in 2018 compared to 1,675 in 2025.

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