Watts Learning Center Charter Middle

Watts Learning Center Charter Middle operates as an intimate middle-grades school in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Watts Learning Center Charter Middle District. Current enrollment sits at 400 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

Watts Learning Center Charter Middle sits inside Watts Learning Center Charter Middle District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Watts Learning Center Charter Middle reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 16% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.1:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Watts Learning Center Charter Middle 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Watts Learning Center Charter Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mervyn M. Dymally High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Watts Learning Center Charter Middle.

The school occupies a city-core site. Watts Learning Center Charter Middle 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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