Aspire Gateway Academy Charter

Aspire Gateway Academy Charter is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in South Gate, California, one of the schools within Aspire Gateway Academy Charter District, enrolling 344 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 26% below typical.

Operationally, Aspire Gateway Academy Charter answers to Aspire Gateway Academy Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Aspire Gateway Academy Charter lists that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Aspire Gateway Academy Charter has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Aspire Gateway Academy Charter is one campus in the mix.

Aspire Firestone Academy Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Aspire Gateway Academy Charter.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. Aspire Gateway Academy 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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