Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet

Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet operates as a modestly sized 6-8 campus in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 456 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that works with 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet shows that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $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 Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet is one.

Nearest neighbor: WISH Community, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 28%: 637 students in 2018 compared to 456 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.