Green Dot to reorganize Locke High School
In a move to address slumping academic performance of incoming ninth-grade students, charter school operator Green Dot Public School is proposing to reorganize Locke High School in Watts.
The Locke campus is split into five small schools. Rather than dividing the ninth-grade students among the five, most new freshmen will be placed in a single academy on the campus. One of the schools, Animo Watts, will continue to serve ninth through 12th grade.
There will be three 10th-12th-grade academies and the charter group wants to open a new middle school in the area to better prepare incoming students, Green Dot announced Thursday.
While Locke has seen some gains, they have not been distributed evenly across the entire campus. The percentage of ninth-grade students who test below basic, or far below basic in math has increased sharply in