Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter

Located at 645 North Kenter Ave., in Los Angeles, California, Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter is a reasonably sized elementary campus that teaches 453 students (grades K through 5), run under Los Angeles Unified.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter shows that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 82.9%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter is one.

The closest other public school is Paul Revere Charter Middle, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 66.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter 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. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter has shrank 18%, going from 554 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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