Palisades Charter High

Palisades Charter High, a well-populated high school in Pacific Palisades, California, one of the schools within Palisades Charter High District, serves 2,920 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 248% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Palisades Charter High logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% Black, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Palisades Charter High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Palisades Charter Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Palisades Charter High.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Palisades Charter High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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