Valor Academy Elementary

Valor Academy Elementary is an elementary campus of small scale in Arleta, California, operated by Valor Academy Elementary District, enrolling 387 students in grades K through 4.

Operationally, Valor Academy Elementary answers to Valor Academy Elementary District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Valor Academy Elementary lists that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Valor Academy Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Valor Academy Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Chase Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valor Academy Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Valor Academy Elementary 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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