Rosa Parks Learning Center

Rosa Parks Learning Center is a mid-tier elementary campus in North Hills, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 500 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Rosa Parks Learning Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rosa Parks Learning Center reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%); the rest breaks down as 3% White, 3% Asian, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Rosa Parks Learning Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Rosa Parks Learning Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rosa Parks Learning Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Rosa Parks Learning Center is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Alta California Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rosa Parks Learning Center ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rosa Parks Learning Center's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 700 (now 500). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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