Alliance Kory Hunter Middle, Los Angeles CA

Original Research by School Decision on Alliance Kory Hunter Middle

Alliance Kory Hunter Middle is a charter school serving grades six through eight in South Los Angeles. It sits in a neighborhood where the vast majority of students come from families with very limited means. The enrollment is small, drawn almost entirely from the surrounding area and holding steady year to year.

The school's most recent state test results show a wide gap between its English Language Arts and math performance. In ELA, overall proficiency across all three grades sits in the lower-to-mid range, with eighth grade notably stronger than sixth and seventh. In mathematics, proficiency is low across all grades. Science proficiency at the eighth-grade level is also low. When these results are compared to other middle schools in Los Angeles County, this school's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile. For a parent evaluating this school against county alternatives, the academic trajectory shows a significant challenge in core subjects, particularly mathematics.

The school's charter was recently recommended for renewal by LAUSD through the end of the decade, which is the single most important question for a charter school family: whether it will continue to exist. That uncertainty is now resolved. The Alliance network of which this school is part has been publicly positioned by researchers as an education system whose students perform at notably higher rates than comparable Los Angeles County and California public school peers, a claim rooted in the network's track record. A parent may want to look into whether that network-level performance reflects the trajectory at this particular school, especially given the current test results.

The school serves almost entirely Hispanic students, with nearly all students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting deep economic disadvantage in the neighborhood. English learner and special education enrollment data were not available in the public reporting.

The immediate South Los Angeles area where the school sits is a dense, mixed industrial and residential zone with small apartment buildings and some single-family housing. The median home value in the zip code is modest and has declined slightly year over year. Monthly rents are low and affordable relative to the Los Angeles county and state average. This is an area of real economic strain. The broader city is in active rezoning and housing growth, with significant new units targeted for low-income households as part of a state-driven housing push, though the neighborhood immediately around the school is not a focal point of new development.

For a family in the area, this school offers the structure of a charter with the commitment of the Alliance network behind it. Parents should examine whether the current academic performance in math and science, which lags county peers, represents a temporary dip or a structural pattern, and how the school's instructional approach in those areas is being addressed.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 625%

School 25% · district not reported

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 725%

School 25% · district not reported

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 826%

School 26% · district not reported

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 644%

School 44% · district not reported

even with state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 738%

School 38% · district not reported

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 855%

School 55% · district not reported

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Science

Grade 826%

School 26% · district not reported

even with state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

This schoolDistrict average, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.