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Granada Hills Charter
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About Granada Hills Charter
Granada Hills Charter is one of the high-enrollment combined-grade schools in Granada Hills, California, one of the schools within Granada Hills Charter District, with 5,927 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 602 students per school, that is 885% larger than typical.
Granada Hills Charter District is the operating authority for Granada Hills Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
In terms of who attends, Granada Hills Charter reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Asian, 23% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 240 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Granada Hills Charter is one campus in the mix.
Darby Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Granada Hills Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
On this page, members of the Granada Hills Charter community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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