Animo South Los Angeles Charter

Animo South Los Angeles Charter, a low-enrollment high school in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Animo South Los Angeles Charter District, caters to 585 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Animo South Los Angeles Charter sits 30% below that benchmark.

Animo South Los Angeles Charter District is the operating authority for Animo South Los Angeles Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Animo South Los Angeles Charter logs that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 18% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Animo South Los Angeles Charter qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Animo South Los Angeles Charter is one campus in the mix.

Ellington (Duke) High (Continuation) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Animo South Los Angeles Charter 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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