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Public school / Middle

Torch Middle

La Puente, California

NCES ID
060411000377
District
Bassett Unified
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Torch Middle is a public middle school in La Puente, California, run by Bassett Unified. It enrols 329 students — the 61501st largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

329students

61501st nationally, tied with 166

Teachers

15.0FTE

75519th nationally, tied with 1,812

Students per teacher

21.9students

83902nd nationally, tied with 231

Free or reduced-price lunch

93.3%percent

10086th nationally, tied with 78

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Bassett Unified

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Bassett Senior High839 students
  2. 2Don Julian Elementary552 students
  3. 3Edgewood Academy489 students
  4. 4Sunkist Elementary354 students
  5. 5J. E. Van Wig Elementary338 students
  6. 6Torch Middle329 students
  7. 7Nueva Vista Continuation High44 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−30.6%
  • Teachers−28.6%
  • Students per teacher−0.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+37.4%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.