STEAM Academy @ Burke

STEAM Academy @ Burke is a tight-knit intermediate school in Pico Rivera, California, overseen by El Rancho Unified. The school hosts 534 students in grades 6 through 8.

El Rancho Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,716 students. STEAM Academy @ Burke is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, STEAM Academy @ Burke shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, STEAM Academy @ Burke tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which STEAM Academy @ Burke is one.

Nearest neighbor: Birney Tech Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEAM Academy @ Burke. On composite proficiency, STEAM Academy @ Burke comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEAM Academy @ Burke has fell 14%, going from 624 students in 2018 to 534 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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