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Enrollments and Poverty (4 Charts)

Most Los Angeles County students are in predominantly poor districts (Chart 1 of 4).

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• Most students in Los Angeles County are enrolled in school districts where 60 to 80 percent of students receive subsidized meals.
• Though poverty is common throughout the region, students in Los Angeles County districts tend to be poorer than students in districts in the outlying counties.

Poor schools and non-poor schools are common throughout the Los Angeles region, but few schools are in the middle (Chart 2 of 4).

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• Most schools have either 0-20% or 80-100% participation in subsidized meal programs.
• Los Angeles Unified School District is the exception: most LAUSD schools are very poor.

The number of students in poverty continues to grow (Chart 3 of 4).

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• The number of poor students has grown steadily throughout the region since 1990.
• The region's schools are being called upon to educate almost 685,000 more poor children than in 1990.

The proportion of students who are poor has leveled off since the mid-1990s (Chart 4 of 4).

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• During the early 1990s recession, the proportion of students who were poor grew rapidly.
• Los Angeles Unified was the exception: poverty remained stable at about 70 percent.
• Though numbers of poor students in the region continued to grow after the mid-1990s, the proportion of students who are poor stabilized.

Last Updated: January 15, 2004