Our Community Charter

Our Community Charter operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Chatsworth, California, part of Our Community Charter District. Current enrollment sits at 434 students spanning grades K through 8.

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

On the student-mix side, Our Community Charter shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 35% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at Our Community Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Our Community Charter is one.

CDS Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Our Community Charter.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Our Community Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.