Marshall Fundamental

Set in Pasadena, California, Marshall Fundamental is a well-populated senior high, operated by Pasadena Unified. It hosts 1,689 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Marshall Fundamental sits 102% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Pasadena Unified (13,639 students total), Marshall Fundamental accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Marshall Fundamental logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 20% White, 7% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 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), Marshall Fundamental is one campus in the mix.

Webster Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marshall Fundamental.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 1,992 students in 2018 compared to 1,689 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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