John C. Fremont Senior High

John C. Fremont Senior High is one of the sizable high schools in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, with 1,889 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 125% larger than the state mean of about 838.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, John C. Fremont Senior High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, John C. Fremont Senior High shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting John C. Fremont Senior High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John C. Fremont Senior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.4%; this one delivers 25.9%.

In the broader community, 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), John C. Fremont Senior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is John Hope Continuation, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John C. Fremont Senior High ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 1,871 students in 2018 compared to 1,889 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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