Lynwood High

Lynwood High operates as a sprawling secondary school in Lynwood, California, overseen by Lynwood Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,858 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 122% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Across the 17 schools in Lynwood Unified (10,851 students total), Lynwood High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lynwood High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Other groups include 7% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lynwood High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Lynwood High is one campus in the mix.

Soleil Academy Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lynwood High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 2,181 students in 2018 compared to 1,858 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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