PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER

PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER is a small elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Para Los Ninos Charter District. The school educates 301 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% below the state mean of about 465.

Para Los Ninos Charter District is the operating authority for PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER reports that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER is one.

CDS Secondary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARA LOS NINOS CHARTER.

The school occupies a high-density site. PARA LOS NINOS 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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