Da Vinci Connect

As a high-enrollment combined-grade school in Hawthorne, California, Da Vinci Connect works with 923 students from grades K through 12, part of Da Vinci Connect District. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Da Vinci Connect sits 53% above that benchmark.

Da Vinci Connect sits inside Da Vinci Connect District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Da Vinci Connect logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Black, 17% White, 16% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Da Vinci Connect has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 39.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Da Vinci Connect is one.

Nearest neighbor: Del Aire Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Da Vinci Connect.

The school occupies a residential site. As a public charter, Da Vinci Connect runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.