Helen Bernstein High

Helen Bernstein High is a 9-12 campus of intimate scale in Hollywood, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, enrolling 703 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Helen Bernstein High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Helen Bernstein High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). The remainder is composed of 5% White, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Helen Bernstein High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.0%; this one delivers 18.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that 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), Helen Bernstein High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is STEM Academy at Bernstein High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Helen Bernstein High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Helen Bernstein High has climbed 17%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 703 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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