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Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle
About Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle
Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle, a close-knit 6-8 campus in Los Angeles, California, operated by Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle District, educates 390 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 659.
Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle sits inside Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%; the rest looks like 23% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle is one campus in the mix.
One Hundred Sixteenth Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area. Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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