Prairie Vista Middle

Located at 13600 South Prairie Ave., in Hawthorne, California, Prairie Vista Middle is a medium-sized middle school that works with 674 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Hawthorne.

Hawthorne comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,904 students; Prairie Vista Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Prairie Vista Middle logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school reports 20% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Prairie Vista Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.4%; this one delivers 30.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Prairie Vista Middle is one.

Da Vinci RISE High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prairie Vista Middle. On composite proficiency, Prairie Vista Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Prairie Vista Middle's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 891 (now 674). Class-load math has rose: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 in 2025.

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