Wiseburn Middle

Wiseburn Middle, a middle-of-the-pack junior high in Hawthorne, California, one of the schools within Wiseburn Unified, hosts 953 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 45% above typical.

Wiseburn Unified comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,536 students; Wiseburn Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wiseburn Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 16% Black, 13% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Wiseburn Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wiseburn Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.8%.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Wiseburn Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Success Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 1,003 students in 2018 compared to 953 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Wiseburn Middle typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.