KIPP Scholar Academy

Located at 6100 S. Hoover St, in Los Angeles, California, KIPP Scholar Academy is a tight-knit intermediate school that educates 434 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by KIPP Scholar Academy District. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

KIPP Scholar Academy sits inside KIPP Scholar Academy District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP Scholar Academy records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%; the rest comes out to 40% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at KIPP Scholar Academy qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), KIPP Scholar Academy is one campus in the mix.

Augustus Hawkins High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. KIPP Scholar Academy 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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