Grover Cleveland Charter High

As a well-populated four-year high school in Reseda, California, Grover Cleveland Charter High teaches 2,719 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 224% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Grover Cleveland Charter High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Grover Cleveland Charter High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 17% White, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Grover Cleveland Charter High higher than the state norm the norm. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grover Cleveland Charter High ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 36.9%; Grover Cleveland Charter High posts 51.9%, +15.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Grover Cleveland Charter High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Joaquin Miller Career and Transition Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grover Cleveland Charter High. On composite proficiency, Grover Cleveland Charter High comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Grover Cleveland Charter High operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Grover Cleveland Charter High's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 3,158 (now 2,719). The Asian share of enrollment fell from 18% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.0:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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