Mark Twain Middle

Mark Twain Middle is one of the mid-sized intermediate schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 974 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 48% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Mark Twain Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mark Twain Middle logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 18% White, 13% multiracial, 10% Black, 7% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Los Angeles County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mark Twain Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +1.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Mark Twain Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Beethoven Street Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mark Twain Middle at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 60.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Mark Twain Middle's enrollment has expanded 48% since 2018, when it stood at 660 (now 974). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 69% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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