Knollwood Preparatory Academy

Set in Granada Hills, California, Knollwood Preparatory Academy is a tight-knit K-5 school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 381 students across grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Knollwood Preparatory Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Knollwood Preparatory Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 36% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Knollwood Preparatory Academy logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Knollwood Preparatory Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Knollwood Preparatory Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.9%.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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. Knollwood Preparatory Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

John F. Kennedy High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Knollwood Preparatory Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

Knollwood Preparatory Academy operates from an urban location. As a public charter, Knollwood Preparatory Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Knollwood Preparatory Academy has fell 11%, going from 429 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 56% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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