Out of 8,597 students enrolled in Los Angeles County Office of Education, 11.7 percent were in eighth-grade during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the California Department of Education.
The grade with the highest concentration of students was 11th-grade with 13.5 percent of all students.
According to the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see public and secondary school enrollment decrease three percent from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is expected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.
In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California’s K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.
| Grade | Number of students | Total % |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 309 | 3.6 |
| First | 309 | 3.6 |
| Second | 304 | 3.5 |
| Third | 254 | 3 |
| Fourth | 212 | 2.5 |
| Fifth | 174 | 2 |
| Sixth | 883 | 10.3 |
| Seventh | 946 | 11 |
| Eighth | 1,002 | 11.7 |
| Ninth | 1,021 | 11.9 |
| 10th | 954 | 11.1 |
| 11th | 1,162 | 13.5 |
| 12th | 1,067 | 12.4 |
