Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet

Set in Los Angeles, California, Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet is a low-enrollment 9-12 campus, run under Los Angeles Unified. It serves 517 students across grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 38% below typical.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 3% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet is one.

Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet's enrollment has increased 115% since 2018, when it stood at 241 (now 517).

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