Arts in Action Community Middle

Arts in Action Community Middle is a micro-enrollment middle-grades school in Los Angeles, California, run under Arts in Action Community Middle District. The school serves 258 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 61% below the state mean of about 659.

Arts in Action Community Middle District is the operating authority for Arts in Action Community Middle, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arts in Action Community Middle lists that 98% 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 meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Arts in Action Community Middle shows 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Arts in Action Community Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Arts in Action Community Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ford Boulevard Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Arts in Action Community Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.