Torrance High

Set in Torrance, California, Torrance High is an expansive high school, part of Torrance Unified. It works with 1,879 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Torrance High sits 124% above that benchmark.

Torrance Unified comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 21,890 students; Torrance High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Torrance High reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Asian, 15% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Torrance High reports 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Torrance High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Torrance High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.8%, the actual is 65.6%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Torrance High is one.

The closest other public school is Gene Drevno Community Day, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Torrance High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Torrance High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.1%.

Torrance High operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Torrance High's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,954 (now 1,879).

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