Puente Charter

Puente Charter operates as a close-knit primary school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Puente Charter District. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

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

On the student-mix side, Puente Charter logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $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%. Puente Charter is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Second Street Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Puente Charter.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Puente Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On this page, members of the Puente Charter community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.