PUC Excel Charter Academy

PUC Excel Charter Academy, a rural-scale 6-8 campus in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within PUC Excel Charter Academy District, instructs 257 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 61% leaner than typical.

PUC Excel Charter Academy District is the operating authority for PUC Excel Charter Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, PUC Excel Charter Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting PUC Excel Charter Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at PUC Excel Charter Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, 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%. PUC Excel Charter Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is PUC Milagro Charter, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

PUC Excel Charter Academy operates from a downtown location. PUC Excel Charter Academy 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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