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2005
Pacific opened five schools on four sites in the Fall of 2005. Permanent sites included Pacific 111th & Western L.L.C. and Pacific 57th & Crenshaw L.L.C., serving the needs of Green Dot Public Schools’ Animo South Los Angeles High School and the Inner City Education Foundation’s View Park Preparatory Accelerated Middle and High School, respectively. In total, these two projects resulted in the creation of 800 permanent charter school seats. Phase II development for each of these campuses will yield an additional 525 seats that will be completed in 2006.
Pacific also secured and retrofitted two temporary incubation sites to allow the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools and Aspire Public Schools to establish academic programs within the City of Huntington Park. These temporary sites allowed for an aggregate Year 1 enrollment of 376 students between the two organizations as Pacific completes the construction of their permanent campuses at 2071 Saturn Avenue (Pacific Saturn L.L.C.)
Pacific 111th Street & Western LLC
Site: 11100 and 11130 Western Avenue
Neighborhood: Athens, South Los Angeles
Seats created: 525
Phase I: 200 seats
Phase II: 325 seats
Tenant: Green Dot Public Schools’ Animo South Los Angeles High School |
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Description: Pacific’s first project, ultimately serving 525 students of the Animo South Los Angeles High School, opened in the fall of 2005. Built on the site of a former jobs training program and a county health office, Animo South LA sits on a very attractive 2.6 acre site. Two existing buildings totaling 33,200 square feet are being supplemented by a small addition to create an academically-friendly high school campus. The entire project will cost less than $6 million or $11,500 per seat -- Phase I, which was completed in the Fall of 2005, created 200 seats for $2.195 million or less than $11,000 per seat.
This school was specifically designed to relieve chronic overcrowding at LAUSD’s Washington Preparatory High School. In the 2004-05 academic year, Washington Prep served 2,922 students. Its student body is 99.9% minority, with 63% eligible for the federal free-and-reduced lunch program. Academically, in the 2004-05 API rankings, Washington Prep scored in the 1st (lowest) decile of all high schools in the state and the 2nd decile against the 100 most similar high schools in the state (Please see “Choosing Sites” for an explanation of API scores). The school did not qualify enough test takers to receive a grade in 2003.
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