Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence

Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence, a moderately sized K-5 school in Inglewood, California, one of the schools within Inglewood Unified, enrolls 487 students, covering grades K through 8.

Inglewood Unified runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 6,727 students. Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder consists of 26% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.6%; this one delivers 28.5%.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence is one.

Environmental Charter Middle - Inglewood is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence. On composite proficiency, Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Bennett/Kew Leadership Academy of Excellence's enrollment has rose 37% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 487). Class-load math has loosened: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 in 2025.

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