New Millennium Secondary

New Millennium Secondary is a four-year high school of very small scale in Gardena, California, overseen by New Millennium Secondary District, instructing 116 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 86% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

New Millennium Secondary is a school of New Millennium Secondary District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, New Millennium Secondary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 35% Black, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, New Millennium Secondary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 78% 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), New Millennium Secondary is one campus in the mix.

Gardena Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Millennium Secondary.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. New Millennium Secondary operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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