Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng
Set in Walnut Park, California, Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng is a close-knit intermediate school, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. It instructs 371 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.
Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.
Demographically, Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 92% 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 above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.6%.
In the surrounding community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).
Walnut Park Mid B Sci Tech Engr and Math Acad is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 31.3%.
Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 371). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.
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