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Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy
Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy operates as a small secondary school in Huntington Park, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 615 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.
Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy is among them.
On the student-mix side, Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy shows that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 23.3%; Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy posts 42.1%, +18.8 points above that line.
In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 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), Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy is one campus in the mix.
Linda Esperanza Marquez High A Hntngtn Park Inst of Appl Med is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 38.1%.
Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 685 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 today.
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