Hollydale

Hollydale is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in South Gate, California, overseen by Paramount Unified, works with 794 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hollydale sits 71% larger than that benchmark.

Paramount Unified runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,623 students. Hollydale is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hollydale logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hollydale has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Hollydale tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Hollydale qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hollydale tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows 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%. Hollydale is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Vista High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hollydale ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 1,032 students in 2018 compared to 794 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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