Beulah Payne P-8 Steam Academy

· Los Angeles County · Inglewood Unified
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No UC admissions data on file for Beulah Payne P-8 Steam Academy.

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
654 (2018)581 (2026)
-11.2%

If this trend holds (-1.5%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~572 -9 $0
3 yr (2029) ~556 -25 $0
5 yr (2031) ~540 -41 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
83.5%
511 of 612 students

101 of 612 students who enrolled at Beulah Payne P-8 Steam Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (16.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
89.1% · school is in the 27th percentile of 676 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 30th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (580) 85.2%
Hispanic / Latino (502) 85.1%
English learners (232) 81.9%
Students w/ disabilities (63) 84.1%
Black / African Am. (59) 74.6%
Asian (23) 87.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy 99.2% Family First Charter 17.6% Hawthorne Math And Science Academy 94.6% Animo Inglewood Charter Hs 96.8% Animo Leadership High 97.0%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
30.3%
176 of 581 students

Absenteeism is up 21.6 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
22.7% · school is worse than 71% of 669 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

District financial profile — Inglewood Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$195.3M
+11.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$24,562
7,950 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 44.5%
Local: 40.0%
Federal: 15.5%
Instruction share
57.3%
of current spending · $9,164/pupil
Long-term debt
$155.4M
+50.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Inglewood Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

Beulah Payne P-8 Steam Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-1.5%/yr), enrollment projects to ~556 by 2029 — about 25 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

581 students (2026)
~556 projected (2029)
at -1.5%/yr

That's about 25 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Beulah Payne P-8 Steam Academy Public 581
Peer-group median 26.5% +2%
Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy Public 586 +1%
Family First Charter Public 579 -73%
Hawthorne Math And Science Academy Public 573 -5%
Animo Inglewood Charter Hs Public 614 48.6% -2%
Animo Leadership High Public 630 +13%
La Tijera K-8 Academy Of Excellence Charter Public 611
Animo South Los Angeles Charter Public 575 +4%
Da Vinci Science High School Public 556 27.5% +4%
Da Vinci Communications Hs Public 555 25.5% +46%
Stella High Charter Academy Public 567 16.0% +2%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

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