PREPA TEC - Los Angeles

Set in Walnut Park, California, PREPA TEC - Los Angeles is a cozy middle school, run under PREPA TEC - Los Angeles District. It hosts 319 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so PREPA TEC - Los Angeles sits 52% smaller than that benchmark.

PREPA TEC - Los Angeles is a school of PREPA TEC - Los Angeles District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, PREPA TEC - Los Angeles reports that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, PREPA TEC - Los Angeles has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 91% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PREPA TEC - Los Angeles is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PREPA TEC - Los Angeles.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. PREPA TEC - Los Angeles 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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