Northridge Academy High

Northridge Academy High is one of the middle-of-the-pack high schools in Northridge, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 832 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Northridge Academy High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northridge Academy High logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 12% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Northridge Academy High shows 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 85% 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 above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Northridge Academy High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.6%; this one delivers 34.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Northridge Academy High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Andasol Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northridge Academy High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

Northridge Academy High operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Northridge Academy High's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,080 (now 832). Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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