Environmental Charter High - Gardena

Environmental Charter High - Gardena operates as a close-knit four-year high school in Gardena, California, one of the schools within Environmental Charter High - Gardena District. Current enrollment sits at 454 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Environmental Charter High - Gardena is a school of Environmental Charter High - Gardena District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Environmental Charter High - Gardena logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Environmental Charter High - Gardena logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Environmental Charter High - Gardena qualify 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Environmental Charter High - Gardena is one campus in the mix.

One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Environmental Charter High - Gardena operates from a metropolitan location. Environmental Charter High - Gardena is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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