South Pasadena Senior High

Located at 1401 Fremont Ave., in South Pasadena, California, South Pasadena Senior High is a big senior high that teaches 1,536 students (grades 9 through 12), run under South Pasadena Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 83% bigger than typical.

South Pasadena Unified runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 4,652 students. South Pasadena Senior High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, South Pasadena Senior High shows that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 24% White, 16% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, South Pasadena Senior High lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Pasadena Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.6%, the actual is 76.4%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), South Pasadena Senior High is one campus in the mix.

South Pasadena Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Pasadena Senior High. On composite proficiency, South Pasadena Senior High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.

South Pasadena Senior High operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. South Pasadena Senior High's enrollment has ticked up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,492 (now 1,536). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

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