Valiente College Preparatory Charter

Valiente College Preparatory Charter is a minimally staffed intermediate school in South Gate, California, part of Valiente College Preparatory Charter District. The school serves 108 students in grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 84% below typical.

Valiente College Preparatory Charter sits inside Valiente College Preparatory Charter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Valiente College Preparatory Charter lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest comes out to 7% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Valiente College Preparatory Charter logs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Valiente College Preparatory Charter is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: South Gate Senior High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. Valiente College Preparatory Charter 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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