Los Alamitos High

As a high-enrollment four-year high school in Los Alamitos, California, Los Alamitos High educates 2,915 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Los Alamitos Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Los Alamitos High sits 248% above that benchmark.

Los Alamitos Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 8,702 students. Los Alamitos High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Los Alamitos High records that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Los Alamitos High has 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Los Alamitos High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Los Alamitos High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 64.8%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Los Alamitos High is one campus in the mix.

Oak Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Los Alamitos High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Los Alamitos High at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Los Alamitos High has ticked down 10%, going from 3,235 students in 2018 to 2,915 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 50% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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