KIPP Academy of Opportunity

KIPP Academy of Opportunity, a cozy 6-8 campus in Los Angeles, California, overseen by KIPP Academy of Opportunity District, serves 466 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

KIPP Academy of Opportunity is a school of KIPP Academy of Opportunity District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, KIPP Academy of Opportunity lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 40% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, KIPP Academy of Opportunity has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. KIPP Academy of Opportunity is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

KIPP Empower Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP Academy of Opportunity.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. KIPP Academy of Opportunity operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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