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The Los Angeles Unified School District provides more funding for schools where the white population is below 30 percent.
In a letter to parents, the district noted the highly regarded middle school had been above the percentage for the past couple years.
The racial formula was a condition imposed by court decisions dealing with desegregation in the 1970s.
Parents, however, remain frustrated with what the cuts might mean for their children.
"When your class sizes are getting larger and you're taking resources away from students, I mean as parents, you do want your kid to go out to college," one parent, Rosemary Estrada, said.
In an attempt to lessen the budget cuts, the district changed the school's spending formula to one based on the number of students.
"Thankfully we're going to keep our librarian. We're going to keep our nurse, but we may lose a few teachers, but not as many as we once thought," said Sheila Edmiston, one student's parent.
Several jobs will still be lost and class sizes could grow. For many parents, the race-based reason of "too many white students" has made the cuts more difficult to swallow.
Comment: While the intent of such laws mandating equality may have been noble at the time they were enacted in order to overcome inherent racism existing in the United States, such laws can be seen to be hurting all students involved with the budget cuts and act to divide people (ie social justice activists views on the left and limiting government interference views on the right) as they react to reduced budgets because there are "too many white students."