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Emerson Community Charter

· Los Angeles County · Los Angeles Unified · Public

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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Emerson Community Charter compares for families

What families should know about Emerson Community Charter.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Citizens Of The World Charter School Mar Vista, Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter, Community Magnet Charter Elementary and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
24.1%
115 of 478 students

Absenteeism is up 11.2 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
22.7% · school is worse than 54% of 669 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
613 (2018)446 (2026)
-27.2%

If this trend holds (-3.5%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~430 -16 $0
3 yr (2029) ~401 -45 $0
5 yr (2031) ~373 -73 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Emerson Community Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-3.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~396 by 2029 — about 50 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

446 students (2026)
~396 projected (2029)
at -3.9%/yr

That's about 50 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Emerson Community Charter Public 446
Peer-group median
Citizens Of The World Charter School Mar Vista Public 460
Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter Public 470
Community Magnet Charter Elementary Public 405
New West Charter School Public 536
Citizens Of The World Charter School Hollywood Public 437
Stella Middle Charter Academy Public 475
Wilder's Preparatory Academy Charter Public 435
Goethe International Charter Public 525
Isana Nascent Academy Public 490
Westwood Charter Elementary Public 670

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
84.3%
429 of 509 students

80 of 509 students who enrolled at Emerson Community Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (15.7% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
89.1% · school is in the 29th percentile of 676 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 32nd percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (296) 83.8%
Hispanic / Latino (200) 88.5%
White (157) 83.4%
Students w/ disabilities (80) 91.3%
Black / African Am. (60) 80.0%
Two or more races (44) 84.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Citizens Of The World Charter School Mar Vista 87.5% Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter 84.8% Community Magnet Charter Elementary 97.7% Citizens Of The World Charter School Hollywood 91.1%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Los Angeles Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$11112.5M
+8.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$24,124
460,633 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 51.7%
Local: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
Instruction share
53.5%
of current spending · $10,061/pupil
Long-term debt
$11908.4M
+4.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Los Angeles Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

For School Admins

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