Crown Preparatory Academy

Crown Preparatory Academy is a 6-8 campus of modestly sized scale in Los Angeles, California, run under Crown Preparatory Academy District, serveing 446 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Crown Preparatory Academy sits inside Crown Preparatory Academy District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Crown Preparatory Academy logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Crown Preparatory Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible 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.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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 Crown Preparatory Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crown Preparatory Academy.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, Crown Preparatory Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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