Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy

Set in Los Angeles, California, Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy is a close-knit high school, part of Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy District. It serves 546 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 35% below typical.

Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy sits inside Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 10% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy qualify 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 meaningfully above typical.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Animo Mae Jemison Charter Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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