Sparks Middle

Sparks Middle is a medium-sized middle school in La Puente, California, one of the schools within Hacienda la Puente Unified. The school serves 600 students in grades 6 through 8.

Hacienda la Puente Unified comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 16,260 students; Sparks Middle is among them.

On demographics, Sparks Middle logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Sparks Middle shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sparks Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 23.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Sparks Middle is one campus in the mix.

Sparks Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sparks Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

Sparks Middle operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Sparks Middle's enrollment has climbed 35% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 600). Class-load math has loosened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 in 2025.

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