Los Angeles Leadership Academy

As a micro-enrollment high school in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Leadership Academy serves 322 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Los Angeles Leadership Academy District. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 62% leaner than typical.

Los Angeles Leadership Academy sits inside Los Angeles Leadership Academy District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Los Angeles Leadership Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at Los Angeles Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Los Angeles Leadership Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Hillside Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Los Angeles Leadership Academy.

The school occupies a high-density site. Los Angeles Leadership Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.