34 public K-12 schools in Torrance from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Torrance has more public-school enrollment than 94% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Torrance sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
20 of Torrance's 34 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 8 middle and 5 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Torrance's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 39th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 4th percentile. The 35-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Torrance school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 1,879 students (highest), a spread of 1,867 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Gene Drevno Community Day | 68 |
| 2. | West High | 48 |
| 3. | South High | 46 |
| 4. | Howard Wood Elementary | 45 |
| 5. | Van Deene Avenue Elementary | 44 |
| 6. | Yukon Elementary | 44 |
| 7. | North High | 43 |
| 8. | J. H. Hull Middle | 43 |
| 9. | Casimir Middle | 42 |
| 10. | Torrance High | 41 |
| 11. | Joseph Arnold Elementary | 41 |
| 12. | Edward J. Richardson Middle | 40 |
| 13. | Lincoln Elementary | 40 |
| 14. | Anza Elementary | 39 |
| 15. | Bert M. Lynn Middle | 39 |
| 16. | Towers Elementary | 38 |
| 17. | Hickory Elementary | 37 |
| 18. | Madrona Middle | 37 |
| 19. | Calle Mayor Middle | 37 |
| 20. | Shery (Kurt T.) High (Continuation) | 37 |
| 21. | Riviera Elementary | 36 |
| 22. | Arlington Elementary | 36 |
| 23. | Jefferson Middle | 35 |
| 24. | Walteria Elementary | 35 |
| 25. | Fern Elementary | 35 |
| 26. | Seaside Elementary | 34 |
| 27. | Victor Elementary | 33 |
| 28. | Philip Magruder Middle | 33 |
| 29. | Evelyn Carr Elementary | 33 |
| 30. | Edison Elementary | 33 |
| 31. | Halldale Elementary | 33 |
| 32. | Meyler Street Elementary | 32 |
| 33. | John Adams Elementary | 29 |
| 34. | Torrance Elementary | 21 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Gene Drevno Community Day has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Torrance schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Torrance has 34 public schools with a total enrollment of 23,238 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.4:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
