Summary:
Studio City’s list includes one school, Carpenter Community Charter, serving kindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 863 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 87% in English language arts (ELA), 85% in math, and 76% in science; chronic absenteeism was 5%, compared with 18% statewide and 23% in Los Angeles Unified. The most important finding is that Carpenter was well above state proficiency rates in all three subjects.
Carpenter is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list because it is the only one, so there is no local school-to-school comparison. Its largest state advantage was in math: 85% proficiency versus 38% statewide, a 46-point gap. ELA was 87% versus 49%, a 38-point gap, and science was 76% versus 36%, a 40-point gap. Results also varied by grade: grade 3 math proficiency was 93%, while grade 5 was 76%, a 17-point spread; even grade 5 was above its state comparison of 37%. The school’s absenteeism rate was 13 points below the state and 18 points below the district.
Results rose in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while science edged down: ELA increased from 84% to 87%, math from 82% to 85%, and science shifted from 76% to 76% after a slight decline. Carpenter’s state advantage widened by 3 points in ELA and 2 in math, but narrowed by 4 points in science as state science proficiency improved faster. SchoolDigger ranked Carpenter 64th of 5,804 schools, at the 99th percentile, in 2025–2026, compared with 130th of 5,857 in 2024–2025 and 132nd of 5,869 in 2023–2024. For context, its student–teacher ratio was 25.3 in 2024–2025, and 13% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Since this list contains only one school, it cannot show how other Studio City schools compare.
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