South Bay Leader

Out of 23,302 students enrolled in Torrance Unified School District, 7.8 percent were in kindergarten during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was 12th-grade with 8.9 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	1,807	7.8
First	1,570	6.7
Second	1,627	7
Third	1,620	7
Fourth	1,555	6.7
Fifth	1,696	7.3
Sixth	1,768	7.6
Seventh	1,804	7.7
Eighth	1,827	7.8
Ninth	2,038	8.7
10th	1,969	8.4
11th	1,936	8.3
12th	2,085	8.9