Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering

Located at 831 East Ave. K-2, in Lancaster, California, Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering is a compact middle-grades school that instructs 414 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Lancaster Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Lancaster Elementary (13,765 students total), Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 17% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 31.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering higher than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.9%; this one delivers 52.4%, a residual of +18.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering is one.

Jack Northrop Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 14.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 417 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 29.8:1 in 2018 to 31.9:1 in 2025.

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