Pomelo Community Charter

Set in West Hills, California, Pomelo Community Charter is an average-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It educates 612 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Pomelo Community Charter sits 32% larger than that benchmark.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Pomelo Community Charter is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Pomelo Community Charter lists that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 13% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pomelo Community Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.6%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +0.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Pomelo Community Charter is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Justice Street Academy Charter, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pomelo Community Charter comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

Pomelo Community Charter operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, Pomelo Community Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pomelo Community Charter has edged down 5%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 612 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 58% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.