Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle

Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle, a close-knit middle-grades school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, educates 457 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 12% White, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Vine Street Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle's enrollment has contracted 43% since 2018, when it stood at 801 (now 457). The White share of enrollment expanded from 6% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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