Ocean Charter

Ocean Charter, an average-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Ocean Charter District, enrolls 563 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 21% above typical.

Operationally, Ocean Charter answers to Ocean Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ocean Charter lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Ocean Charter lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Ocean Charter is one.

The closest other public school is Marina del Rey Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ocean Charter.

The school occupies a downtown site. Ocean Charter 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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