Odyssey STEM Academy

Odyssey STEM Academy, a compact secondary school in Lakewood, California, one of the schools within Paramount Unified, educates 336 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 60% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Paramount Unified comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,623 students; Odyssey STEM Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Odyssey STEM Academy logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 10% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Odyssey STEM Academy logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at Odyssey STEM Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Odyssey STEM Academy ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 22.8%; Odyssey STEM Academy posts 53.5%, +30.7 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Odyssey STEM Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Buena Vista High, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Odyssey STEM Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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