Dixie Canyon Community Charter

Set in Sherman Oaks, California, Dixie Canyon Community Charter is an average-sized elementary-level community, part of Los Angeles Unified. It enrolls 635 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Dixie Canyon Community Charter sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Dixie Canyon Community Charter is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Dixie Canyon Community Charter shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 26% multiracial, 20% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Dixie Canyon Community Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.7%; this one delivers 65.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Dixie Canyon Community Charter is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Riverside Drive Charter, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dixie Canyon Community Charter ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Dixie Canyon Community Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dixie Canyon Community Charter has declined 14%, going from 740 students in 2018 to 635 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 60% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 in 2025.

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