William J. Johnston Community Day

Located at 2210 Taper Ave., in San Pedro, California, William J. Johnston Community Day is a very small high school that teaches 57 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 93% leaner than typical.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; William J. Johnston Community Day is among them.

On demographics, William J. Johnston Community Day logs that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% Black, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, William J. Johnston Community Day has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting William J. Johnston Community Day tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at William J. Johnston Community Day qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. William J. Johnston Community Day is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Taper Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 53%: 122 students in 2018 compared to 57 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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