Lawndale High

Lawndale High operates as a substantial senior high in Lawndale, California, part of Centinela Valley Union High. Current enrollment sits at 1,403 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Lawndale High sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Centinela Valley Union High runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 5,351 students. Lawndale High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lawndale High logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 23% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lawndale High shows 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Lawndale High higher than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lawndale High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. Lawndale High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: R. K. Lloyde High, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lawndale High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 39%: 2,283 students in 2018 compared to 1,403 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 17% to 23% over that span.

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