Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center

Located at 2302 South Gramercy Pl., in Los Angeles, California, Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center is a very small secondary school that works with 264 students (grades 11 through 12), run under Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 68% below the state mean of about 838.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 13% Black, 5% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center is one.

Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep and Transition Center has edged down 18%, going from 323 students in 2018 to 264 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 71% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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