Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8

Located at 113 South Rowan Ave., in Los Angeles, California, Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 is a modestly sized intermediate school that enrolls 396 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 District. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 659.

Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 is a school of Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alliance Morgan McKinzie High, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8 is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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