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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Mary McLeod Bethune Middle, Los Angeles, CA

CEP schoolMary McLeod Bethune Middle is a public middle school in Los Angeles, part of Los Angeles Unified. It enrolled 843 students in 2024-25, with 17.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
843
Teachers (FTE)
48.0
Students per teacher
17.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.6 lower than the district figure of 19.2. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.6
District19.2
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
155 West 69th St., Los Angeles, CA 90003
County
Los Angeles County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
062271002856
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
816
Reduced-price lunch
7
Free or reduced-price lunch
82397.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
553Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Los Angeles Unified

Middle schools elsewhere in Los Angeles

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.