Los Altos High

Los Altos High is a sprawling 9-12 campus in Hacienda Heights, California, operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified. The school serves 1,592 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 90% above the state mean of about 838.

Los Altos High is one of 35 schools operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified, a district that works with 16,260 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Los Altos High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest comes out to 6% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Los Altos High shows 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Los Altos High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Los Altos High is one.

Valley Alternative High (Continuation) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Los Altos High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Los Altos High's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,776 (now 1,592). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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