El Rio Community

El Rio Community is a modestly sized K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, run under El Rio Community District. The school educates 316 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 465.

El Rio Community sits inside El Rio Community District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Rio Community logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, El Rio Community logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting El Rio Community tighter than the state norm the norm. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. El Rio Community is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Alliance Susan and Eric Smidt Technology High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Rio Community.

The school occupies a city-core site. El Rio Community is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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