Original Research by School Decision on Animo Mae Jemison Charter Middle District
Animo Mae Jemison Charter Middle District serves students in grades six through eight in Los Angeles County as a single-school district operated by Green Dot Public Schools. The enrollment is small, distributed fairly evenly across the three middle-grade cohorts.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial population of Black students and very few students of other backgrounds. Data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner counts are not available in the public record, so a parent interested in understanding the full socioeconomic and academic-support profile of the school's population would need to contact the school directly.
State testing results and proficiency data are not provided in available public records. This gap may reflect the school's charter status, the timing of data collection, or reporting constraints specific to this district. A parent should ask the school for recent state assessment results and year-to-year trend information to evaluate academic performance.
The school does not serve high school grades, so no graduation rate is reported.
On chronic absenteeism, the district sits in the bottom quartile among Los Angeles County's districts. This is a concrete metric worth understanding further. Chronic absenteeism can reflect barriers to attendance ranging from family circumstances to transportation to health. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, including what supports exist to help families and students maintain regular attendance, and what underlying factors the school has identified.
Per-pupil spending is in the upper-middle range among county districts, suggesting the school has resources available relative to its peers.
Recent changes reshape what families should expect. In 2023 the school was awarded a California Community School Grant, which has funded wraparound supports and additional learning resources. Through the state's Children & Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, the school now provides school-based mental health services—screenings, assessments, and ongoing support—at no cost to families. These represent durable expansions of student support that parents can count on going forward.
The school operates a free, district-wide Expanded Learning after-school program daily. The program centers on project-based enrichment including music, art, theatre, leadership, STEM, and cornerstone clubs. This is available at no cost to families and shapes what after-school engagement looks like here.
The school website and Green Dot's public information indicate these are the main program anchors currently in place. A parent should ask about core academic curriculum, academic intervention pathways, and how the school structures academics across the three grades to build toward high school readiness.
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