Summary:
The New Heights Charter District in Los Angeles, California, has one elementary school, New Heights Charter, which serves grades K-8 with an enrollment of 405 students.
New Heights Charter has faced academic challenges in recent years, with its statewide school rank declining from 4,544 out of 5,883 California elementary schools in 2021-2022 to 3,015 out of 5,862 in 2023-2024, earning a rating of 2 out of 5 stars from SchoolDigger. The school's performance on standardized assessments, such as the Smarter Balanced Assessments and CAST, is generally below the state averages, though it has shown some exceptions, such as outperforming the state average in 6th grade English Language Arts and 8th grade Mathematics in 2023-2024.
Demographic and socioeconomic factors may contribute to the school's academic challenges, as New Heights Charter has a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (90.37% in 2022-2023) and a relatively high student-teacher ratio of 21.3 to 1 in 2022-2023. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 26.4% in 2022-2023 is significantly higher than the state average, which can have a significant impact on student learning and achievement.
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