Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies

Located at 3200 West Washington Blvd., in Los Angeles, California, Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies is a cozy K-5 school that serves 344 students (grades K through 5), operated by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies sits 26% below that benchmark.

Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest reads as 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of +13.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $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%. Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Arlington Heights Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 21.6%.

Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies's enrollment has ticked down 44% since 2018, when it stood at 619 (now 344). Black enrollment moved from 7% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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