Jane Addams Middle

As a medium-sized 6-8 campus in Lawndale, California, Jane Addams Middle teaches 644 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Lawndale Elementary.

Jane Addams Middle is one of 8 schools operated by Lawndale Elementary, a district that instructs 4,314 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Jane Addams Middle records that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Jane Addams Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Jane Addams Middle sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 29.1%; actual is 47.8%, +18.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Jane Addams Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lawndale High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jane Addams Middle. On composite proficiency, Jane Addams Middle comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 875 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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