Will Rogers Middle

Will Rogers Middle, a medium-sized middle school in Lawndale, California, run under Lawndale Elementary, works with 799 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Will Rogers Middle sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Lawndale Elementary, which oversees 8 schools and 4,314 students, Will Rogers Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Will Rogers Middle logs that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Will Rogers Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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 Will Rogers Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: William Anderson Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Will Rogers Middle comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Will Rogers Middle has contracted 20%, going from 998 students in 2018 to 799 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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