Emerson Community Charter

As a cozy junior high in Los Angeles, California, Emerson Community Charter works with 454 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Emerson Community Charter sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Emerson Community Charter accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Emerson Community Charter lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% White, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Emerson Community Charter has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Emerson Community Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 44.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Emerson Community Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fairburn Avenue Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Emerson Community Charter ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 65.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Emerson Community Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Emerson Community Charter has declined 26%, going from 613 students in 2018 to 454 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 21% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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