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New Open World Academy K-12
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About New Open World Academy K-12
New Open World Academy K-12 is one of the heavily attended unified-grade schools in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, with 911 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. That puts it 51% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.
Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), New Open World Academy K-12 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, New Open World Academy K-12 records that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Asian, 4% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, New Open World Academy K-12 lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. The state averages about 18.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 98% of students at New Open World Academy K-12 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 above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Open World Academy K-12 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.4%; this one delivers 20.3%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. New Open World Academy K-12 is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).
Nearest neighbor: Ambassador School-Global Education, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Open World Academy K-12. On composite proficiency, New Open World Academy K-12 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.
New Open World Academy K-12 operates from a metropolitan location.
Trend over the last 7 years. New Open World Academy K-12's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,153 (now 911). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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