Summary
La Tijera Academy of Excellence Charter is a 552-student K–8 school in Inglewood, part of Inglewood Unified. In 2025–2026, its all-grade English language arts (ELA) proficiency was slightly above California’s rate, while math and science were below the state. Its most important local distinction is that it had higher all-grade proficiency than the three nearby K–8 schools in all three tested subjects.
La Tijera’s 2025–2026 proficiency rates were 50% in ELA, 32% in math, and 33% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%. It was also above Inglewood Unified in each subject, whose rates were 33%, 20%, and 18%. Against nearby K–8 peers Oak Street, Centinela, and Frank D. Parent, La Tijera was ahead of their average by 17 percentage points in ELA, 13 in math, and 16 in science. Results vary considerably by grade: fifth-grade math was a weak spot at 11%, 26 points below the state rate and 7 points below the district.
Results have improved over the four years reported: math rose from 22% to 32% and science from 14% to 33%, while ELA increased from 38% to 50% overall but fell 5 points in the latest year. Science’s gap with the state narrowed from 16 points to 3; math’s narrowed from 13 to 6. SchoolDigger ranks La Tijera at the 46th statewide percentile, with 2 stars, in 2025–2026; its district is at the 30th percentile, also with 2 stars. SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves African American Students places them at the 77th percentile (4 stars), compared with the school’s overall 46th percentile. Hispanic Students’ ranking also rose, from the 38th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 56th in 2025–2026. The student–teacher ratio was 23:1 in 2024–2025. That year, 93% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible, close to the rates at nearby K–8 peers; this is context, not an explanation for results.
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