Mary McLeod Bethune Middle

Mary McLeod Bethune Middle is a medium-sized 6-8 campus in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school hosts 843 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 659.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Mary McLeod Bethune Middle is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Mary McLeod Bethune Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder comes out to 12% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mary McLeod Bethune Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.9%.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Mary McLeod Bethune Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sixty-Sixth Street Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mary McLeod Bethune Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 1,071 students in 2018 compared to 843 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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