City Charter Schools is a charter school operator in the
Los Angeles metropolitan area
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. it operates two schools: City Language Immersion Charter (early childhood to grade 5) and The City School (grades 6–8).
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It previously operated City High School. The school opened in 2015 on the campus of Los Angeles High School
Los Angeles High School is the oldest Public education#United States, public high school in the Southern California, Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are royal blue and white and the teams are ...
. Employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is a public school district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the largest public school system in California in terms of number of students and the 2nd largest public school district in ...
(LAUSD) initially suggested using Emerson Middle School Emerson Middle School may refer to the following schools in the United States:
* Emerson Community Charter School, formerly formerly Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School, Los Angeles
* Emerson Middle School (Illinois)
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as the location, but Emerson Middle parents, in the process of asking for more area parents to enroll in the LAUSD-operated Emerson, opposed the plan and started a petition against it. The opening of a new girls' school in Los Angeles High forced City High to find new quarters. The school moved to space in a synagogue; it had rejected the option to move into Dorsey High School
Susan Miller Dorsey High School is a high school located in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles, California. It is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school serves Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Village, Jefferson Park, West Adams a ...
partly because members of the City Charter Schools community disapproved of the location. The synagogue's rent was high and not enough students were enrolled to pay for the space; 125 were enrolled even though 150 were initially scheduled to enroll. City High closed in September 2016.
Demographics
City High School had 116 students circa 2016, with 28% being non-Hispanic white. The City School's student body in that period was 57% non-Hispanic white. The middle school's demographics drew heavily from the Los Angeles Westside
The Los Angeles Westside is an urban region in western Los Angeles County, California. It has no official definition, but sources like '' LA Weekly'' and the Mapping L.A. survey of the ''Los Angeles Times'' place the region on the western side o ...
, and the founders of the charter network were based in the Westside.[
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Charter schools in California
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