Carpenter Community Charter

As a sizable elementary campus in Studio City, California, Carpenter Community Charter educates 863 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 86% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Carpenter Community Charter is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carpenter Community Charter logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Carpenter Community Charter tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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 Carpenter Community Charter is one.

Walter Reed Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carpenter Community Charter at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 60.0%.

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

Five-year trend. Carpenter Community Charter's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,006 (now 863). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 71% to 47% over that span.

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