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Inglewood, California - 16 schools
An equity score of 67/100 ranks Inglewood Unified #325 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $20,324 per pupil, Inglewood Unified ranks #219 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
7,354
Total Enrollment
16
Schools
$20,324
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Inglewood Unified operates 16 public schools serving 7,354 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 11 elementary, 4 high, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. 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 $20,324 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 33.7% local, 47.7% state, and 18.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 67/100, ranked #325 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 3 of 16 schools offering Advanced Placement (22 AP courses district-wide), a 375.1:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 49.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.8% Hispanic or Latino, 34.1% African American, 0.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Highland Elementary, with a diversity index of 56.2/100.
Its largest campus is Woodworth-Monroe Tk-8 Academy, enrolling 826 students (12% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Inglewood Continuation High, at 68 students, a 12x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Inglewood Unified school enrollment varies 12× across entities
Inglewood Unified school enrollment ranges from 68 students (lowest) to 826 students (highest), a spread of 758 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Inglewood Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 75.6% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Inglewood Unified student-counselor ratio is 375:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Inglewood Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 49.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.