Animo Venice Charter High

Located at 820 Broadway St., in Venice, California, Animo Venice Charter High is a rural-scale four-year high school that educates 335 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Animo Venice Charter High District. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Animo Venice Charter High is a school of Animo Venice Charter High District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Animo Venice Charter High shows that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 6% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at Animo Venice Charter High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Animo Venice Charter High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Broadway Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Animo Venice Charter High operates from an urban location. Animo Venice Charter High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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