Belmont Senior High

Belmont Senior High School is a public high school located at 1575 West 2nd Street in Downtown Los Angeles. A member school of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Belmont opened in 1923 and has since served a growing population of students from grades 9 through 12, following a three track calendar year. Belmont High School has the distinction of being the largest public school in the city of Los Angeles and the largest school in California, due to the density of the Westlake district, which it serves. Belmont High School's colors are green and black, and their teams are called the Sentinels.

School Statistics

The Belmont faculty has a full credential of 89% rating, and an emergency credential of 3%. The average teaching experience for Belmont teachers is 10 years, while their average teaching experience in the district is likewise 10 years. Only 10% of the teachers are on their first year of teaching.

The school's average class size is 28 for grade 9, 30 for grade 10, 30 for grade 11, and 28 for grade 12. The student staff ratio is 68 Students per paraprofessional staff, 222 Students per office/clerical staff, and 105 Students per other classified staff.

In terms of ethnicities, the students are unevenly divided with the Hispanic/Latino making up a shade over nine-tenths of the total population. Other ethnic backgrounds of students in Belmont are Asian (3%), Filipino (3%), African American (2%), White (less than 1%), and American Indian/Alaskan (less than 1%).