Open Charter Magnet

Open Charter Magnet is an intimate elementary campus in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 390 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Open Charter Magnet is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Open Charter Magnet lists that 29% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 19% multiracial, 18% Hispanic, 8% Asian. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Open Charter Magnet shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Open Charter Magnet higher than the state norm the norm. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Open Charter Magnet performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.8%, the actual is 66.2%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Open Charter Magnet is one.

Westport Heights Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Open Charter Magnet comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site. Open Charter Magnet is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 12% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.