York

Located at 11838 South York Ave., in Hawthorne, California, York is a reasonably sized elementary campus that hosts 449 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Hawthorne.

Hawthorne runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,904 students. York is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, York logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Black, 2% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting York tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, York ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 26.2%; York posts 40.7%, +14.5 points above that line.

In the broader 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), York is one campus in the mix.

Animo Leadership High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around York. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), York ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. York's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 449). The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 81% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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