Mervyn M. Dymally High

Located at 8800 South San Pedro St., in Los Angeles, California, Mervyn M. Dymally High is a compact four-year high school that instructs 654 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Mervyn M. Dymally High is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that serves 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Mervyn M. Dymally High shows that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 19% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Mervyn M. Dymally High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mervyn M. Dymally High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.9%, the actual is 19.5%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Mervyn M. Dymally High is one.

The closest other public school is Watts Learning Center Charter Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mervyn M. Dymally High comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.4%.

Mervyn M. Dymally High operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mervyn M. Dymally High has fell 7%, going from 707 students in 2018 to 654 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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