Inglewood charter school named among top 10
Rachel Fink on June 24, 2011 in School Paragraph
Charter school named among top 10
Inglewood. An Inglewood school is one of the top 10 independent charter campuses among more than 800 statewide, according to a report released last week by USC.
The USC School Performance Dashboard, put out by the university’s Center on Educational Governance, is a comprehensive report on the performance of charter schools. In its fifth year, the report ranks schools on 12 indicators, including financial resources and investment, school quality, student performance and academic productivity.
Wilder’s Preparatory Academy Charter was highlighted as the 10th of 10 top charter schools, as measured by the highest combined ratings. It was the only school singled out from Los Angeles County, which has the greatest concentration of charter schools in the country.
The largely African-American school is a K-8 campus that opened in 2003. The school is on North La Brea Avenue.
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The USC study is at .
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