Crete Academy District

The Crete Academy District in Los Angeles, California has only one school, Crete Academy, which is an elementary public charter school. Crete Academy has consistently ranked in the bottom 1-2% of California elementary schools over the past three school years, with a statewide rank of 5794 out of 5862 schools in 2023-2024.

Crete Academy's performance on standardized tests is significantly below the state average. In 2023-2024, only 11.32% of Crete Academy students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to the state average of 47.04%. In Mathematics, only 7.01% of Crete Academy students were proficient or better, compared to the state average of 35.54%. The school's performance on science assessments (CAST) is also very low, with only 4.44% of students proficient or better in 2023-2024, compared to the state average of 30.7%.

Crete Academy has a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 92.12% in the 2022-2023 school year, and a relatively high student-teacher ratio of 26.4 to 1 in the same year. The school's chronic absenteeism rate was 4.5% in the 2022-2023 school year. These demographic and resource challenges may be contributing factors to the school's low academic performance, which suggests a persistent and significant academic challenge for the school and its students.