Orchard Academies 2B

Set in Bell, California, Orchard Academies 2B is a tight-knit intermediate school, operated by Los Angeles Unified. It works with 352 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Orchard Academies 2B is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Orchard Academies 2B records that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Orchard Academies 2B has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Orchard Academies 2B sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 21.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Orchard Academies 2B is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Orchard Academies 2C, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orchard Academies 2B. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orchard Academies 2B ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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