Jack London Community Day

Valley Glen, California, is home to Jack London Community Day, a very small high school. The school offers grades 7 through 12 and enrolls 23 students. High schools in California average about 838 students, which makes this school 97% below average.

Enrollment across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified totals 406,887 students.

Roughly 87% of students at Jack London Community Day are Hispanic. Other students are 9% White and 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County residents are about 48% Hispanic.

There are 1.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.1:1. The average for high schools in California, 18.2:1, is higher. Of all students at Jack London Community Day, 96% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Los Angeles County, the average is 70%.

In the wider Los Angeles County area, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Los Angeles County, 2,244 public schools serve about 1,265,907 students.

Jack London Community Day is less than a tenth of a mile from Jack London Continuation, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.

Federal data put enrollment at 57 in 2020-21 and 23 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. The school's ratio dropped from 19.0:1 to 15.1:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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