Academia Moderna

Located at 2410 Broadway, in Walnut Park, California, Academia Moderna is a mid-tier elementary-level community that educates 408 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Academia Moderna District.

Academia Moderna is a school of Academia Moderna District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Academia Moderna reports that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Academia Moderna tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Academia Moderna qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Academia Moderna is one.

PREPA TEC - Los Angeles is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a residential setting. Academia Moderna operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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