Mark Keppel

Mark Keppel is a mid-tier K-5 school in Paramount, California, part of Paramount Unified. The school educates 426 students in grades K through 5.

Paramount Unified runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,623 students. Mark Keppel is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mark Keppel lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder is composed of 3% 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 income-and-resources front, Mark Keppel reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Mark Keppel qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mark Keppel sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.2%; this one delivers 30.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Mark Keppel is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cesar Chavez Continuation High, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mark Keppel ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Mark Keppel's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 426).

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