Fenton Avenue Charter

As a sizable primary school in Lake View Terrace, California, Fenton Avenue Charter hosts 746 students from grades K through 5, part of Fenton Avenue Charter District. That puts it 60% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Operationally, Fenton Avenue Charter answers to Fenton Avenue Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Fenton Avenue Charter lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder comes out to 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, 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%. Fenton Avenue Charter is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: PUC Comm Charter Mid and PUC Comm Charter Early College High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fenton Avenue Charter.

The school occupies an urban site. Fenton Avenue Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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