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Los Angeles, California - 1 schools
At $14,219 per pupil, Academy of Media Arts District ranks #1159 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$14,219
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Academy of Media Arts District operates 1 public schools serving 143 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Los Angeles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,219 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 30.4% local, 51.5% state, and 18.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 15.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Academy of Media Arts, enrolling 143 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Academy of Media Arts accounts for 100.0% of all Academy of Media Arts District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Academy of Media Arts District a distant remainder — means Academy of Media Arts District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Academy of Media Arts District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 62.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Academy of Media Arts District chronic absenteeism rate is 15.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Academy of Media Arts District is typically wider than the Academy of Media Arts District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Academy of Media Arts District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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