Leona Jackson

Leona Jackson operates as a small middle-grades school in Paramount, California, one of the schools within Paramount Unified. Current enrollment sits at 517 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Across the 19 schools in Paramount Unified (11,623 students total), Leona Jackson accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Leona Jackson records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school shows 25% Black, 3% Asian, 2% 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 employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Leona Jackson tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Leona Jackson performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Leona Jackson is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Wesley Gaines is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leona Jackson. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Leona Jackson at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.0%.

Leona Jackson operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Leona Jackson's enrollment has shrank 39% since 2018, when it stood at 854 (now 517). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 78% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Leona Jackson typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.