Woodland Hills Academy

Woodland Hills Academy is a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Woodland Hills, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school instructs 607 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Woodland Hills Academy is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Woodland Hills Academy logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder breaks down as 15% White, 9% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Woodland Hills Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Woodland Hills Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Serrania Avenue Charter for Enriched Studies, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodland Hills Academy. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Woodland Hills Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Woodland Hills Academy's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 694 (now 607). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 74% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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