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Enrollments and Poverty
(3 Charts)
The number of students in poverty
continues to grow.
(Chart 1 of 3)
Data Source:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/
- The number of poor students has grown steadily throughout the
region since 1990.
- The region's schools must educate almost 685,000 more poor
children than in 1990.
- See our Glossary section
on Poverty.
The proportion of students who are
poor has leveled off since the mid-1990s.
(Chart 2 of 3)
Data Source:
http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/
- During the early 1990s recession, the proportion of students who
were poor grew rapidly.
- LAUSD was the exception: poverty remained stable at
approximately 70%.
- Though the number of poor students continued to grow even
after the recession ended, the proportion of students who are
poor stabilized.
Wealth and Poverty
Distribution Summary Statistics.
(Chart 3 of 3)
| |
Five
County Region |
Los
Angeles County |
Outside Los Angeles County |
Los
Angeles Unified School District |
| % of
students in HIGH POVERTY schools (schools with
70-100% of students on subsidized meals) |
33% |
42% |
21% |
46% |
| % of
students in AVERAGE schools (schools with
30-70% of students on subsidized meals) |
35% |
32% |
38% |
31% |
| % of
students in LOW POVERTY schools (schools with
0-30% of students on subsidized meals) |
33% |
26% |
40% |
23% |
- The Five County Region as a whole has about as many HIGH POVERTY
schools as LOW POVERTY schools.
- Poverty is much more common in Los Angeles County schools and
particularly in Los Angeles Unified School District, where nearly
half of students attend HIGH POVERTY schools.
- See our Glossary
section on Poverty.
Last Updated:
July 27, 2005
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