Maywood Academy High

Maywood Academy High, an average-sized four-year high school in Maywood, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, hosts 1,012 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 21% bigger than typical.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Maywood Academy High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Maywood Academy High reports that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Maywood Academy High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.9%; this one delivers 28.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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), Maywood Academy High is one campus in the mix.

Nueva Vista Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Maywood Academy High comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 1,263 students in 2018 compared to 1,012 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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